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What is the verb for gradient?

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grade
  1. To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
  2. To assign a score to overall academic performance.
  3. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
  4. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
  5. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Any teacher completing these books will never again be able to grade student work without questioning how and why that grading is taking place.”
      “If it were up to me, I would grade it according to its sugar content.”
      “In the fossil record, Neanderthals don't grade smoothly into Homo sapiens.”
gradate
  1. To change imperceptibly from one gradation of tone etc. to another
  2. To arrange in order of grades
  3. (chemistry) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “This helped them build up the climaxes of phrasing, so characteristic of the Romantic style, and to gradate more smoothly to the final part.”
      “At all events he can gradate from black to white with remarkable minuteness and ease.”
      “As soon as you find you can gradate tolerably with the pen, take an H. or hh.”
graded
grading
gradation
  1. (transitive) To form with gradations.
gradates
grades
gradationed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of gradation
gradated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of gradate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Just as the dowels diminish in size from the top to the bottom of the piece, the purple acrylic is gradated in its application to each element.”
      “They slowly gradated into each other before the sun itself finally came up.”
      “Ground and polished, it can reveal a subtle, colored matrix of gradated sands and rock, such as you might find along the edge of a stream bed.”
gradationing
  1. present participle of gradation
gradating
  1. present participle of gradate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He depicts the contours, imperfections, and beauty distinct to an individual face by gradating the color and dripping the paint.”
      “So much as the Quintet sounds like a small string orchestra, they do not drown out the middle parts in the compact sound, clearly gradating the individual instrumental lines.”
      “Today, in all the probability and logic theories, there seems to be an emerging sense of the need to confront the limited precision of humans in gradating their beliefs.”
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