Meaning

3 senses
  1. A rank or grade.

    evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

  2. Gradation.

  3. The act of reshaping the contour of the landscape so as to provide rainwater drainage around buildings, create lawns and gardens, prepare roadbeds, and so on.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Tom sat at his desk grading papers.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Tom is grading papers.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. Our teacher is grading tests.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. I'm grading papers.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. She was buried in grading the papers.

    deSie war in die Benotung der Arbeiten vertieft.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Forms

plural: gradings
Singulargrading
Pluralgradings

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface:leveling
  • evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score:markingscoring
  • the act of arranging in a graduated series:scaling

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
grading — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto