What is "low-grade"

Usage examples of "low-grade".

Those prisoners with boilers hexed to them are issued enough culm and low-grade coke to work.

The investigations include the possibility of making satisfactory commercial fuels from lignite or low-grade coals which do not stand shipment well, the benefiting of culm or slack coals which are wasted or sold at unremunerative prices, and the possibility of improving the efficiency of good coals.

It led to the clamorous horror of the cell-deck, to the puzzled low-grade servitors, to the tanks where the expellees writhed, and to the splayed, silent body of the naive crewman she had known as Tup.

By the time Plex came along, his family were in so deep with the yakuza that low-grade criminality was just a fact of life.

In those chambers, Licky had told him, the vapor of the quicksilver was trapped and condensed, reheated and recondensed, till in the topmost vault the pure metal ran down into a stone trough or bowl-only a drop or two a day, he said, from the low-grade ores they were roasting now.

The diagnosis was dysthymic disorder, a chronic form of low-grade depression.

After graduation, he used a small inheritance to invest in a new process for extracting rare earths from low-grade ore.

The gobbes were very low-grade demons, and any powers they might try to raise could not stand against what he had learned.

It also sounded to Charlotte like a pack of lies: a refusal to cooperate, or even to acknowledge the problem, whose pigheadedness would not have been out of place in the fake personality of a low-grade sloth.

There had been a few hints: subtle changes in her vital signs in the form of a low-grade fever and a mildly elevated pulse She had even experienced some cramps, lower abdominal tenderness, and a mild vaginal discharge, but none of these signs and symptoms seemed cause for concern.

The central-SC countryside looks blasted, lynched, the skies the color of low-grade steel, the land all dead sod and broomsedge, with scrub oak and pine leaning at angles, and you can almost hear the mosquitoes breathing in their baggy eggs awaiting spring.

Low-grade Delinks but with no syndicate or assassin guild insignia on their clothing.

I heard a hissmy friend, Hamiltonmy own personal patron saint of badly folded maps, damp matches, low-grade pornography, bad perms, tetracycline, and borrowed cigarettes.

Everything had been styled after an ancient musical, which meant the men wore shirts made of tablecloths from Italian restaurants and every other vidiot packed a six-gun with a low-grade laser triggered by revolver blanks.

It was a very low-grade sim, no more capable than the meanest of modern sloths, and it had obviously been programmed with brutal simplicity.