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Grading

noun

The act of arranging in a graduated series. Synonym: scaling.

Changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface. Synonym: leveling.

Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score. Synonyms: marking, scoring.

Grade

verb

(past & past part. graded; pres. part. grading)

Assign a rank or rating to. Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate. "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

Level to the right gradient.

Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation. Synonyms: mark, score. "Score the SAT essays" , "Mark homework"

Determine the grade of or assign a grade to.

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"Grading" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Poughkeepsie, New York, a member of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, was employed, in 1837 and 38, in levelling and grading for a rail-road in the state of Georgia: he had under his direction, during the whole time, thirty slaves. Mr. ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... one more question—and I hope you won't get mad at me. I 'm a funny old fellow, and I do a lot of things that don't seem right at the beginning. But I 've saved a few young bloods like you from trouble more than once. You ain't been high-grading?" ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... almost no information as to any social grading of schools, or as to their size. All we know is that some schools were taught entirely by one man, while others employed an undermaster or several. In some cases the school is entirely a private enterprise, the master ...

— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

... first grading was done in the autumn of 1864, and the first rail laid in July, 1865. When you look back to the beginning at the Missouri River, with no railway communication from the east, and five hundred miles of the country in advance; without timber, ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... instant, and asked questions which showed that they knew enough to make them wish to go farther. The pictures of steamboats and railroad cars, in the columns of some newspapers which I had, gave me great difficulty to explain. The grading of the road, the rails, the construction of the carriages, they could easily understand, but the motion produced by steam was a little too refined for them. I attempted to show it to them once by an experiment ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

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