grader

English

A road grader.

Etymology

From grade +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪdɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪdə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

grader (plural graders)

1. A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.

   Hypernym: heavy equipment

   Hyponym: road grader

   Coordinate terms: bulldozer, dozer, front-end loader

   • 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

     The blade-grader is a long steel-framed carriage under which is fixed a steel blade capable of being tilted at various angles: its principal use is in trimming cutting-slopes.

2. A machine used to sort food by size or quality.
3. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

   the graders of a school examination

4. (in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school.

   a first-grader

   • 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The episode follows two different stories: in one, the show’s resident bigot, Eric Cartman, is outraged to learn that fellow fourth grader Clyde has risen to prominence as a white nationalist podcaster who makes offensive claims about women, Jewish people, Black people and other minority groups to goad them into debating him in exploitative viral videos (“WOKE STUDENT TOTALLY PWNED”).

Derived terms

• 10th grader
• 11th grader
• 12th grader
• 13th grader
• 1st grader
• 2nd grader
• 3rd grader
• 4th grader
• 5th grader
• 6th grader
• 7th grader
• 8th grader
• 9th grader
• eighth grader
• eleventh grader
• fifth grader
• first grader
• fourth grader
• intergrader
• intragrader
• ninth grader
• reserve grader
• second grader
• seventh grader
• sixth grader
• tenth grader
• third-grader
• third grader
• thirteenth grader
• twelfth grader

Related terms

• gradation
• grading

Translations

machine

• Ahtna: łaets nełtʼanʼa
• Catalan: anivelladora f
• Czech: srovnávač
• Danish: vejhøvl c
• Estonian: teehöövel (et)
• Finnish: tiehöylä (fi), tiekarhu (fi), maantiekarhu
• French: niveleuse (fr) f
• German: Strassenhobel m
• Irish: grádóir m
• Italian: livellatrice f
• Korean: 모터그레이더 (moteogeureideo)
• Navajo: chidí bee naʼalzhoodí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (road grader) veiskrape m or f

• Polish: równiarka f
• Portuguese: niveladora f, patrola (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: гре́йдер (ru) m (gréjdɛr)
• Spanish: motoniveladora f
• Swahili: greda
• Swedish: väghyvel (sv) c
• Turkish: greyder (tr)

one who grades or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated

• Czech: srovnávač m
• Finnish: arvostelija (fi), arvioija (fi), lajittelija (fi), luokittelija, tasoittaja, huolittelija (person, depending on which sense of "grade" is concerned); tasoitin (leveling tool)
• French: correcteur (fr) m
• Portuguese: corretor (pt)

one who belongs to a certain grade at school

• Finnish: -luokkalainen
• Italian: studente (it) m
• Russian: -кла́ссник m (-klássnik), -кла́ссница f (-klássnica)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} masina de nivelat f, ^{(please verify)} buldozer (ro), ^{(please verify)} gradat (ro)

Anagrams

• Drager, Gerard, red rag, redrag, regard

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

grader m

1. indefinite plural of grad

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

grader f

1. indefinite plural of grad

Swedish

Noun

grader

1. indefinite plural of grad

Anagrams

• drager