| 单词 | grading |
| 释义 | grading (once / 7954 pages) 1n 2n 3n When your teacher stays up until four in the morning assigning scores to student work, that's the grading of papers. Grading can also mean smoothing a surface, as in grading a lawn before planting seeds. Grading comes from the verb grade, which basically means "group by category." When a teacher works on the grading of papers, she's dividing them into groups — the A's go together, the B's and so on. Fruit grading works in the same way, as does meat — you can have meat where the grading is "prime," or meat with a grading of "Grade A." Grading also has to do with the idea of gradual change — a steep slope could be said to have steep grading. WORD FAMILYgrading: gradings+/grade: gradable, graded, grader, grades, grading, gradual/graded: ungraded/grader: graders/gradual: graduality, gradually, gradualness, graduals USAGE EXAMPLESEach studio, whether specially designed for editing, sound mixing or color grading, is a floating room-built-within-a-room. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Why weren’t comprehensive internal quality controls of all grading and diploma-granting mechanisms established then to ensure the department was receiving correct data? Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) I employ 150 men and 80 women for between six and eight months of the year, mainly for packing and grading tobacco. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) 1 n evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score 2what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do Syn|Hyper marking, scoring evaluation, rating act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of n changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface 3Syn|Hyper leveling building, construction the act of constructing something n the act of arranging in a graduated series Syn|Hyper scaling order, ordering the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement |
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