Sentence examples for grade meaning from inspiring English sources

Both ratings are below investment grade, meaning banks and many other investors cannot buy the bonds.

All were rated below investment grade, meaning they carry a high risk of default.

Roughly half of its 21-foot height is below grade, meaning that the clerestory windows are at sidewalk level.

But the company's bonds will still be considered "investment grade," meaning that most financial institutions will still be able to hold the bonds in their portfolios.

This fall, Leeann will be in seventh grade, meaning she will be on her own to take subways and city buses to get to school.

The youngest girl in the brothel had been trafficked from Vietnam a few months ago when she was in the seventh grade, meaning that she was born in 1999.

The regulator investigated after headteachers said 10,000 to 67,000 pupils had been wrongly graded meaning some could have missed out on sixth-form and college places.

Our analysis shows that either a reduced set of features derived from WTA (suggested by an ANOVA analysis), or a low dimensional sub-space (with two dimensions, obtained using PCA or PLS-DA), enable an adequate separation of the several paper formation quality grades, meaning that we can indeed follow, on-line, the quality status of paper formation.

Grading on a curve is by definition a type of "norm-referenced" grading, meaning student work is graded based on comparisons with other students' work (Brookhart, 2004, p. 72).

It could be shown that GALNT6 especially is correlated to a small tumour size and low grading, meaning that small, still good differentiated tumours are glycosylated, and thus glycosylation is a marker for a good prognosis for therapy and outcome.

It's food-grade, meaning it is safe for humans and animals to ingest.