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Grading   /grˈeɪdɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Grading  n.  The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.


verb
Grade  v. t.  (past & past part. graded; pres. part. grading)  
1.
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
2.
To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
3.
(Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.





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"Grading" Quotes from Famous Books



... now, since he had built a clap-board house, and was using the log-cabin for a barn—William Turnbull, observing these short-cuts, approved of their purpose, but not of their method. He went through the woods once or twice on odd days after his hay was in, and did a little grading with a mattock. Here and there he made steps out of flat stones. He told his wife he thought it would be some handier for her, and she told him—they were both from Connecticut—that it was quite some handier, and that it ...
— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner
... of the petition made out a strong case. They went into the grading of the kinds of salt obtained from the West Indies, Africa and Europe and asserted that, inferior though some of them were, they nevertheless had been found to be "preferable to England salt for ...
— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton
... The grading men must have got their work all finished, for the ground all about didn't look at all as it had when the foreman and David had ...
— The Doers • William John Hopkins
... superiority to volunteer officers limited to knowledge of company and battalion drill, army regulations and administration; keeping up separate organization with its grades, belittled actual command in military operations, and resulted in grading regular officers who had done little or nothing, above volunteers who had worthily ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... third trick man begins to figure on his work train orders for the day and when he has completed them he sends them out to the different crews. Work train orders, it may not be amiss to explain, are orders given to the different construction crews, such as the bridge gang, the grading gang, the track gang, etc., to work between certain points at certain times. They must be very full and explicit in detail as to all trains that are to run during the continuance of the order. For regular trains running ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady


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