Grade vs. Division: What's the Difference?

A stage or degree in a process.

The act or process of dividing.

A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity

The state of having been divided.

An accepted level or standard.

(Mathematics) The operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.

A set of persons or things all falling in the same specified limits; a class.

The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity

A level of academic development in an elementary, middle, or secondary school

Something, such as a boundary or partition, that serves to divide or keep separate.

A group of students at such a level

One of the parts, sections, or groups into which something is divided.

Grades Elementary school.

An area of government or corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.

A number, letter, or symbol indicating a student's level of accomplishment

A territorial section marked off for political or governmental purposes.

A military, naval, or civil service rank.

An administrative and tactical military unit that is smaller than a corps but is self-contained and equipped for prolonged combat activity.

The degree of inclination of a slope, road, or other surface

A group of several ships of similar type forming a tactical unit under a single command in the US Navy.

A slope or gradual inclination, especially of a road or railroad track

A former unit of the US Air Force that was larger than a wing and smaller than an air force.

The level at which the ground surface meets the foundation of a building.

(Botany) The taxonomic category ranking just below kingdom, consisting of one or more related classes, and corresponding approximately to a phylum in zoological classification.

A domestic animal produced by crossbreeding one of purebred stock with one of ordinary stock.

A category created for purposes of competition, as in boxing.

(Linguistics) A degree of ablaut.

Variance of opinion; disagreement.

To arrange in grades; sort or classify

A splitting into factions; disunion.

To determine the quality of (academic work, for example); evaluate

The physical separation and regrouping of members of a parliament according to their stand on an issue put to vote.

To give a grade to (a student, for example).

(Biology) Cell division.

To level or smooth to a desired or horizontal gradient

A type of propagation characteristic of plants that spread by means of newly formed parts such as bulbs, suckers, or rhizomes.

To gradate.

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

To improve the quality of (livestock) by crossbreeding with purebred stock.

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

To change or progress gradually

The process of dividing a number by another.

A rating.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

(linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).

(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

A level of primary and secondary education.

(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

The level of the ground.

(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

(mathematics) A gradian.

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

(geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.

A lesson; a class.

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.

(systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

(medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

An eyeglass prescription.

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

To organize in grades.

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

(sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

(linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

(intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

To pass from one school grade into the next.

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; - usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.

An army unit large enough to sustain combat;

To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

The act or process of dividing

To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

An administrative unit in government or business

A body of students who are taught together;

An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

A relative position or degree of value in a graded group;

Discord that splits a group

The gradient of a slope or road or other surface;

A league ranked by quality;

One-hundredth of a right angle

(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

A degree of ablaut

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance);

A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

The height of the ground on which something stands;

A group of ships of similar type

A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality;

The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

A variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed

Assign a rank or rating to;

Level to the right gradient

Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation;

Determine the grade of or assign a grade to