Word Meanings - GRADATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. (more info) 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks;
Additional info about word: GRADATION
A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. (more info) 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes. 2. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade. 3. Any degree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRADATION)
- Progression
- Series
- gradation
- rate
- Routine
- Round
- course
- succession
- order
- rule
- custom
- system
- sequence
- rotation
- stereotype
- prescription
- tenor
- uniformity
- method
- settlement
- regulation
- Step
- Advance
- pace
- space
- grade
- remove
- degree
- progression
- track
- trice
- walk
- gait
- proceeding
- action
- measure
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRADATION)
- Retard
- hinder
- withhold
- withdraw
- recall
- depress
- degrade
- suppress
- oppose
- retreat
- decrease
- Misfit
- misconform
- mismeasure
- misdeal
- misapportion
Related words: (words related to GRADATION)
- STEREOTYPER
One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry. - ROUNDWORM
A nematoid worm. - SYSTEMATIZE
To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine - ROUNDISH
Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - ROUNDFISH
Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska. - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - ROUND-UP
The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. - COURSED
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry. - PROCEED
To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou - PROCEEDER
One who proceeds. - SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles, - TRICENTENARY
Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - TRACKWALKER
A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - FRICATRICE
A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PHYSOGRADE
Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia. - FRATRICELLI
The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - RETROGRADATION
1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - BERTILLON SYSTEM
A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.