0 past simple and past participle of grade --
1 to separate people or things into different levels of quality, size, importance, etc.: --
It was interested in keeping the peace through a system of compensations carefully graded according to status.
Due to the competitive queuing mechanism, activation of these phonemes is graded, which establishes a representation of the nonword.
The entries refer to standard works on historical linguistics, graded according to their degree of difficulty.
However, affective prosody is a right hemisphere, neocortical, function that allows graded and highly varied emotional expressions that are under considerable conscious control.
This facies occurs as beds of coarse or medium to fine, normally graded sandstone between 0.3 and 1.0 m thick.
Nerves were graded by two "masked" investigators who were not aware of the grade assigned by the other investigator.
Each test was graded to give two scores: one that reflected mastery of pronoun forms and one for mastery of pronoun placement.
Sections were de-waxed with xylene and re-hydrated through a graded series of ethanol/ water mixtures.
