English

Alternative forms

• grad

Noun

Grad ‎(plural Grads)

1. A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this.
   • 1989: Jane’s Defence Weekly, v 12, Coulsdon, UK: Jane’s, p 1050:

     It supplements the 220 mm BM-22 Uragan (‘Hurricane’) and 122 mm BM-21 Grad (‘Hail’) MRLs, already in service.

   • 1998: Field Artillery, Field Artillery Association (U.S.), p 7:

     The MRL systems Smerch, Uragan, and Grad are designed to destroy concentrations of personnel and various vehicles at distances up to 70 kilometers.

   • 2001: Olga Oliker, Russia’s Chechen Wars 1994–2000: Lessons from Urban Combat, Santa Monica, California: Rand, p 29:

     The Russians fought back with Grad rocket-launcher salvos and mortar attacks (they also made some use of armor).

   • 2009: Rockets from Gaza: Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups’ Rocket Attacks, New York: Human Rights Watch, p 22:

     “[w]e saw Hamas come and put up rocket launchers and fire. We could tell they were Grads by the sound, which is louder and deeper than that of Qassams.”

Synonyms

• BM-21
• Katyusha

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaːt/
• Homophones: Grat, grad
• Rhymes: -aːt

Noun

Grad m ‎(genitive Grads or Grades, plural Grad or Grade)

1. degree

Usage notes

• When used as a measuring unit (e.g. for temperature), the word always has the unchanged plural Grad: zwei Grad wärmer – "two degrees warmer"; einige Grad kühler – "some degrees cooler".
• When not used as a measuring unit, the plural form is Grade: Die soziale Ungleichheit hat bisher ungekannte Grade erreicht. – "Social inequality has reached degrees previously unknown." This usage is less common than in English.

Declension

Derived terms

• Breitengrad
• Gradmesser
• Längengrad

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

grad ‎(plural grads)

1. Abbreviation of graduate.
2. Abbreviation of graduation.
3. (geometry, trigonometry) Abbreviation of gradian.

See also

• deg
• rad

Etymology 2

Noun

grad ‎(plural grads)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Grad

Anagrams

• drag

Alemannic German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑd/

Adverb

grad

1. now, at the moment
   • 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):

     Mir si grad am Esse, aber Si gönd gern mitesse, wen Si wend.

     We're eating at the moment, but you can gladly join us for dinner if you like.

2. exactly

German

Etymology

Contraction of gerade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

Adverb

grad

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of gerade

Luxembourgish

Adverb

grad

1. just, just now

   Mäi Brudder ass grad heemkomm

   My brother has just come home

Molise Croatian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian grad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /grâːd/

Noun

grad m

1. village

Declension

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).
• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gradus

Noun

grad m ‎(definite singular graden, indefinite plural grader, definite plural gradene)

1. degree (general)
2. an academic degree
3. degree (of angle)
4. degree (of latitude or longitude)
5. degree (of temperature)
6. rank (e.g. military)

Derived terms

References

• “grad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gradъ, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₃d-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrat/
• Homophone: grat

Noun

grad m inan

1. hail

Declension

Derived terms

• gradowy
• gradobicie

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French grade, ultimately from Latin gradus.

Noun

grad n ‎(plural grade)

1. degree (unit of measurement for temperature)

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

grad

1. sudden, immediate, instant
2. quick, rapid, swift, alert, agile

Derived terms

• gu grad

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gordъ ‎(“settlement, enclosed place”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gordos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos, *ǵʰortós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrâːd/

Noun

grȃd m ‎(Cyrillic spelling гра̑д)

1. city, town
2. fortress, castle
3. (usually after the proposition u) downtown, city centre

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *gradъ, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₃d-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrâd/

Noun

grȁd m ‎(Cyrillic spelling гра̏д)

1. hail

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin gradus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrâːd/

Noun

grȃd m ‎(Cyrillic spelling гра̑д)

1. (mathematics) gradian
2. degree (measuring unit in various systems; the more usual and general term is stȅpēn or stȗpanj)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡráːt/
• Tonal orthography: grȃd

Noun

grád m inan ‎(genitive gradú or gráda, nominative plural gradôvi or grádi)

1. castle
2. (archaic) city

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

grad c

1. a degree (on a thermometer or other scale)
2. a degree (from a university), a title
3. a rank

Declension

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