Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone to another.
- intransitive verb To cause to pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone to another.
- intransitive verb To arrange in or according to grades.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to pass by insensible degrees, as from one tint of color, or from one light or dark tone, to another.
- To effect gradation, as of color.
- In chem., to bring (a solution) to a desired degree of concentration.
- Arranged serially according to size, as the whorls of a gastropod shell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
- transitive verb (Chem.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To change imperceptibly from one
gradation of tone etc. to another - verb To
arrange in order ofgrades - verb chemistry To bring to a certain strength or grade of
concentration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange according to grades
- verb pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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MR. MCCURRY: We kind of gradate the way we do this and we're at the senior advisers recommend veto level at this point.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997
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Well, lets see: tons of post-gradate education; years of experience as a park ranger and biology teacher; extensive familiarity with hundreds of problematic exotic species; an outdoors nut; tough as nails; tons of public speaking experience.
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Well, lets see: tons of post-gradate education; years of experience as a park ranger and biology teacher; extensive familiarity with hundreds of problematic exotic species; an outdoors nut; tough as nails; tons of public speaking experience.
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Newton observed that the hues gradate smoothly into each other.
The Color Wheel, Part 1 James Gurney 2010
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My question is, do they gradate at equal strengths along the way?
James Perry Wilson’s Dioramas, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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I know that the tones would appear to gradate from white to black, if I started at yellow, and made my way to violet.
James Perry Wilson’s Dioramas, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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The reflected colors softly gradate from greens on the left to reds on the right.
Croquet Balls James Gurney 2008
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The reflected colors softly gradate from greens on the left to reds on the right.
Archive 2008-07-01 James Gurney 2008
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My wife (Virginia) and I met at the University of Michigan, spent the first year of our marriage in Belfast, Northern Ireland, spent a year in North Carolina, and started having children when I was in gradate school at Princeton.
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I applied to the International Women's Club in Sofia to provide a transition home for orphans once they gradate.
Archive 2006-02-01 Matthew Wahlgren 2006
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