marking, grading, scoring
(noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; “what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do”
grading, leveling
(noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
scaling, grading
(noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grading
present participle of grade
grading (plural gradings)
A rank or grade.
(math) Gradation.
• draggin', garding, niggard
Source: Wiktionary
Grad"ing, n.
Definition: 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.
Grade, n. Etym: [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree, Gradus.]
1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.
2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
3. (Stock Breeding)
Definition: The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.
– Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad.
– Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad.
– Equating for grades. See under Equate.
– Grade crossing, a crossing at grade.
Grade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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)
Definition: To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 April 2025
(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; “empty eyes”; “a glassy stare”; “his eyes were glazed over with boredom”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
