Grad

• grad

From Russian Град (Grad, “codename for a type of multiple rocket launcher”), from Russian град (grad, “hail”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑd/, /ˈɡɹæd/
• Rhymes: -ɑd, -æd
• Homophone: grad

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 Association (U.S.), Field Artillery, page 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, page 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, page 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.”

• BM-21
• Katyusha

• Gard, darg, drag, gard

Borrowed from French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaːt/

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• Homophones: Grat, grad
• Rhymes: -aːt

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

1. degree

   0 Grad Celsius (0°C) sind 273,15 Kelvin.

   Zero degrees Celsius (0°C) are 273.15 Kelvin.

• 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.

• “Grad” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Grad” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Grad” in Duden online

From grad.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: Grad
• Homophones: grad, grat

Grad m pers

1. a male surname

Grad f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “GRAD”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022