| 单词 | grade up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto grade up 5. Stock-breeding. To cross with some better breed. to grade up: to improve the breed of (stock) by grading. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)] > breed > grade grade1874 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 92 He..thought he should improve the color of his butter by grading his herd with Jersey blood. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin ix. 161 It encourages you to go to the expense of turning in good bulls and grading up your stock. to grade up 8. intransitive. To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another. Also with down, off, over, toward, up. Also, to grade up: to take rank with a higher grade or class (cf. sense 5); to grade up with: to compare with, to be like. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into slidea1398 growc1460 wear1555 accrue1586 ripen1611 shuffle1635 melt1651 steal1660 spawn1677 verge1757 to glide into1800 shade1819 evolve?1831 shadow1839 grade1892 1892 R. D. Salisbury in Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. New Jersey 1891 74 While the drumlin type is fairly distinct, drumlins grade into hills which are not drumlins. 1903 Harper's Mag. July 186 The type graded downward into the lower invertebrates. 1907 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West i. 5 When a man marries a queen he ought to grade up with her. 1921 Brit. Mus. Return 157 Rock-crystal grading into quartzite, from..Minas Geraes, Brazil. 1923 C. E. Mulford Black Buttes xiv. 223 Strikes me funny, though, the way they [sc. the new cattle] grade up. 1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 292 This granite..frequently graded off into pegmatite. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ix. 198 The activity grades down from one pole of the egg to the other. 1943 J. S. Huxley Evol. Ethics iv. 26 Ethics grades over into the prescriptions of totem and tabu. 1952 P. H. Abrahams Path of Thunder ii. ii. 91 If the whites and the black people were equal, if there were no colour bar, if a black man could go to Parliament and had all the same rights as a white man, and the Coloured people wanted to grade toward the whites, then it would be all right. 1971 Nature 1 Jan. 16/1 Basalt, up to 2 km thick, grades downwards into gabbro and metamorphic rocks. < as lemmas |
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