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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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... hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51) to be expended in improving and grading of various roads throughout the island of Puerto Rico such as ...

— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley

... then, begins its evolution with the general and proceeds to the individual by a series of terms each of which is similarly related to both extremes, we must find the material enunciation of this process assuming the form of a series of terms, beginning with mere nebulous matter, grading into organic life, and organic life presenting us with a similar series beginning with the mere cell and ending with man. So rigid and invariable must this serial arrangement be that if a term in either series be wanting, we are ...

— The Philosophy of Evolution - and The Metaphysical Basis of Science • Stephen H. Carpenter

... of the same canal. It ascends and descends the mountain by five inclined planes on each side, overcoming in ascent and descent 2570 feet, 1398 of which are on the eastern, and 1172 on the western side of the mountain. 563 feet are overcome by grading, and 2007 feet by the planes. On this line, also, are four extensive viaducts, and a tunnel 870 feet long, and 20 feet wide, through the staple bend of the Conemaugh river. The western division of the Pennsylvania canal commences at Johnstown, on the ...

— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

... grading contract, and I resumed my work as a buffalo hunter. When the Perry House, the Rome hotel, was moved to Hays City and rebuilt there, I took my wife and ...

— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

... hoofin' it from Cheslow to Grading. I heard of a job up at Grading—and I needed that ...

— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson

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