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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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... left in its enclosure many of the stumps of recently felled trees. All Hetty's farmer's instincts revived in full force; and, only a few days after Father Antoine's conversation with her, he found her one morning superintending the uprooting of these stumps, and making preparations for grading the land. As he watched her active movements, energetic tones, and fresh open face, he fell into a maze of wondering thought. This was no morbid sentimentalist; no pining, heart-broken woman. Except that truthfulness was stamped on every lineament of Hetty's countenance, ...

— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous

... a month. Finally there was a vacant house over on Nineteenth street and Common and I moved there. Then I commenced to look for work and I walked the town over daily. No results whatever. Finally I struck a little job with the contractor here digging ditches, grubbing stumps, grading streets and so forth. I worked with him for three years and finally I got a job with the street car company, as laborer in the Parks. I worked at that job two years. Finally I got a job as track laborer. I worked there ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... survived the general suppression of monasteries and buildings of its cast, during the reigns of Henry VIII. and the sixth Edward; and after alternately grading from the possession of private families to that of brothers belonging to the establishment, it was at last finally appropriated to the instruction of the rising generation, whose parents are exempt from giving any gratuity to the preceptor ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 268, August 11, 1827 • Various

... 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 curing and preserving ...

— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton

... buy at auction and of reputable people who are not boomers, or at least buy at forced sale; that is how real estate is sold when it must be sold. Choose lots level with the curb and on high ground, lest the expense of grading and sewering eat ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

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