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Cadre vs Grade - What's the difference?

cadre | grade |

As nouns the difference between cadre and grade

is that cadre is a frame or framework while grade is a rating.

As a verb grade is

to assign scores to the components of an academic test.

cadre

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A frame or framework.
  • (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002
  • , author=Barry M. Stentiford , title=The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century , chapter=9 , isbn=1585441813 , page=202 , passage=From the original plan, thirty-four cadre battalions, with a total of 116 companies, had actually been formed, a total of about 700 officers and another 600 key enlisted men.}}
  • The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
  • * {{quote-book, 1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, page=101 citation
  • , passage=After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice). }}
  • * 1997 , Jae Ho Chung, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture , edited by David S.G. Goodman, Routledge, p. 146:
  • Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.
  • * 2006 , Financial Times, China airbrushes Chen :
  • Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.
  • a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    grade

    English

    (wikipedia grade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rating.
  • The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
  • A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , year = 1986–2012 , author = paul wheaton permaculture , title = Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat! , site = richsoil.com , url = http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp , accessdate = 2014-03-17 }}
    There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!

    Make sure that you get food grade' diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth. There are claims at parasite control, longevity and all sorts of perks. I know that food '''grade''' diatomaceous earth is used heavily in storing grains - so you are probably already eating lots of diatomaceous earth every time you eat any bread, pasta or other grain based food.

    Farmers feed food '
    grade
    diatomaceous earth to their animals to reduce parasites and provide other benefits.
    This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
  • A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
  • A level of pre-collegiate education.
  • A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  • An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
  • The level of the ground.
  • (label) A gradian.
  • (label) In a linear system of divisors on an n''-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of ''n generic divisors.
  • A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Greenleaf Whittier)
  • The grade of hatchets fiercely thrown / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.
  • (label) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  • (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  • Synonyms

    * (taxon that is not a clade) paraphyletic group

    Verb

  • To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
  • To assign a score to overall academic performance.
  • To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
  • (label) 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.
  • Derived terms

    {{rel3, gradable , grader , grade school , grade system , make the grade}}

    Anagrams

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