Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 36
Gown (n.) [C] 女禮服，（婦女穿的）長禮服；（法官，教士，教師及學生畢業典禮時穿的）禮服；長袍 The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. -- Dryden.
Gown (n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
Gown (n.) Any sort of dress or garb.
He comes . . . in the gown of humility. -- Shak.
Gown (n.) An evening gown.
Gown (n.) The students and faculty of a college and university, as opposed to the local inhabitants not connected to the university; -- used often in the phrase "town and gown", referring to interactions between the university and the local townspeople; as, a town and gown dispute.
Gown (n.) A woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions.
Gown (n.) The members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; "the relations between town and gown are always sensitive".
Gown (n.) Lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women [syn: nightgown, gown, nightie, night-robe, nightdress].
Gown (n.) Protective garment worn by surgeons during operations [syn: gown, surgical gown, scrubs].
Gown (n.) Outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions [syn: gown, robe].
Gown (v. t.) 使穿長袍（或禮服）[H] Dress in a gown.
Gowned (p. a.) Dressed in a gown; clad.
-men (n. pl. ) of Gownman.
Gownsman (n.) Alt. of Gownman.
Gownman (n.) 職業上穿長袍者； (如法官、律師、大學教授等) One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
Gozzard (n.) See Gosherd. [Prov. Eng.]
Graafian (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician.
Graafian follicles or vesicles, Small cavities in which the ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the bursting of which they are discharged.
Graal (n.) See Grail., a dish.
GRAAL ("Grail") General Recursive Applicative and Algorithmic Language. FP with polyadic combinators. "Graal: A Functional Programming System with Uncurryfied Combinators and its Reduction Machine", P. Bellot in ESOP 86, G. Goos ed, LNCS 213, Springer 1986.
Grab (n.) (Naut.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
Grabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Grab.
Grabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grab.
Grab (v. t.) 攫取，抓取；奪取，霸 (v. i.) 佔抓（住），奪（得）[（+at）] To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
Grab (n.) 抓住，攫取，霸佔 [（+at/ for）]；抓得之物，奪取之物 A sudden grasp or seizure.
Grab (n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
Grab bag, At fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [Colloq.]
Grab game, A theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. [Colloq.]
Grab (n.) A mechanical device for gripping an object.
Grab (n.) The act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion" [syn: catch, grab, snatch, snap].
Grab (v.) Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!" [syn: catch, grab, take hold of].
Grab (v.) Get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" [syn: snap up, snaffle, grab].
Grab (v.) Make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand; "The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask".
Grab (v.) Obtain illegally or unscrupulously; "Grab power".
Grab (v.) Take or grasp suddenly; "She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room".
Grab (v.) Capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination" [syn: grab, seize].
Grabber (n.) [C] 攫取者；強奪者，掠奪者 One who seizes or grabs.
Grabber (n.) An unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately.
Grabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Grabble.
Grabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grabble.
Grabble (v. i.) 搜索；摸黑前進；爬；匍匐 To grope; to feel with the hands.
He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. -- Selden.
Grabble (v. i.) To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. -- Ainsworth.
Grace (n.) 優美；優雅 [U]；通情達理 [S] The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. -- Milton.
Grace (n.) (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works. -- Rom. xi. 6.
My grace is sufficicnt for thee. -- 2 Cor. xii. 9.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. -- Rom. v. 20.
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. -- Rom. v. 2
Grace (n.) (Law) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
Grace (n.) (Law) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
Grace (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Grace (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
He is complete in feature and in mind.
With all good grace to grace a gentleman. -- Shak.
I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. -- Blair.
Grace (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. -- Hazlitt.
I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. -- Longfellow.
Grace (n.) pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
The Graces love to weave the rose. -- Moore.
The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. -- Prior.
Grace (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
How fares your Grace ! -- Shak.
Grace (n.) (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.]
Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. -- Chaucer.
Grace (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
Grace (n.) pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
Grace (n.) (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. -- Walton.
Grace (n.) pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
Act of grace. See under Act.
Day of grace (Theol.), The time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.
That day of grace fleets fast away. -- I. Watts.
Days of grace (Com.), The days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different.
Good graces, Favor; friendship.
Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace.
Grace cup. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.
The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. -- Hing.
Grace drink, A drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup.
To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. -- Encyc. Brit.
Grace hoop, A hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13.
Grace note (Mus.), An appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above.
Grace stroke, A finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace.
Means of grace, Means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc.
To do grace, To reflect credit upon.
Content to do the profession some grace. -- Shak.
To say grace, To render thanks before or after a meal.
With a good grace, In a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously.
With a bad grace, In a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously.
What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy.
Usage: Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance.
Graced (imp. & p. p.) of Grace.
Gracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grace.
Grace (v. t.) 使優美；使增光 To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
Great
Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. -- Pope.
We are graced with wreaths of victory. -- Shak.
Grace (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court. -- Knolles.
Grace (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace. -- Bp. Hall.
Grace (v. t.) (Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Grace (n.) (Christian theology) A state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence; "the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin"; "it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church"; "the Virgin lived in a state of grace" [syn: grace, saving grace, state of grace].
Grace (n.) Elegance and beauty of movement or expression; "a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace" [syn: grace, gracility].
Grace (n.) A sense of propriety and consideration for others; "a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace" [syn: seemliness, grace] [ant: unseemliness].
Grace (n.) A disposition to kindness and compassion; "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished" [syn: grace, good will, goodwill].
Grace (n.) (Greek mythology) One of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors.
Grace (n.) A short prayer of thanks before a meal; "their youngest son said grace" [syn: grace, blessing, thanksgiving].
Grace (n.) (Christian theology) The free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God; "God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners"; "there but for the grace of God go I" [syn: grace, grace of God, free grace].
Grace (v.) Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify].
Grace (v.) Be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify].
Grace (1.) Of form or person (Prov.
1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). (2.) Favour, kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; 19:19;
2 Tim. 1:9). (3.) God's forgiving mercy (Rom. 11:6; Eph. 2:5). (4.) The gospel
as distinguished from the law (John 1:17; Rom. 6:14; 1 Pet. 5:12). (5.) Gifts
freely bestowed by God; as miracles, prophecy,
ongues (Rom. 15:15; 1 Cor. 15:10; Eph. 3:8). (6.) Christian virtues (2 Cor.
8:7; 2 Pet. 3:18). (7.) The glory hereafter to be revealed (1 Pet. 1:13).
Grace. () That which a person is not entitled to by law, but which is extended to him as a favor; a pardon, for example, is an act of grace. There are- certain days allowed to a payer of a promissory note or bill of exchange, beyond the time which appears on its face, which are called days of grace. (q. v.)
Grace, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 990
Housing Units (2000): 389
Land area (2000): 0.987294 sq. miles (2.557079 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.987294 sq. miles (2.557079 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32500
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.576245 N, 111.729599 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83241
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Graced (a.) Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. -- Shak.
Graceful (a.) 優美的，雅緻的，典雅的；懂禮貌的，得體的 Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. -- Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
Graceful (a.) Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution [ant: awkward].
Graceful (a.) Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: elegant, graceful, refined].
Graceless (a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." -- Milton.
Graceless (a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less*ness, n.
Graceless (a.) Lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess" [syn: graceless, unpleasing].
Graceless (a.) 難看的，醜的；不知禮的；粗野的 Lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott [syn: graceless, ungraceful].
Graceless (a.) Lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche" [syn: gauche, graceless, unpolished].
Gracile (a.) Alt. of Gracillent
Gracillent (a.) Slender; thin. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Syn: willowy.
Gracile (a.) 細長的；纖細優美的 Slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy].
Gracility (n.) State of being gracilent; slenderness. -- Milman. "Youthful gracility." -- W. D. Howells.
Gracility (n.) Elegance and beauty of movement or expression; "a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace" [syn: grace, gracility].
Gracious (a.) 親切的；和藹的；殷勤的 [（+to）]；慈祥的；仁慈的；體恤的 Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.
A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. -- Neh. ix. 17.
So hallowed and so gracious in the time. -- Shak.
Gracious (a.) Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.
Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born. --Shak.
Gracious (a.) Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.
Syn: Favorable; kind; benevolent; friendly; beneficent; benignant; merciful.
Gracious (a.) Characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor" [ant: ungracious].
Gracious (a.) Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king" [syn: benignant, gracious].
Gracious (a.) Exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture" [syn: courteous, gracious, nice].
Gracious (a.) Disposed to bestow favors; "thanks to the gracious gods".
Graciously (adv.) 親切地；和藹地；殷勤地；慈祥地；仁慈地 In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. -- Dryden.
Graciously (adv.) Fortunately; luckily. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Graciously (adv.) In a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously" [syn: graciously, gracefully] [ant: gracelessly, ungracefully, ungraciously, woodenly].
Graciousness (n.) 和藹；親切；慈善；好心 Quality of being gracious.
Graciousness (n.) Excellence of manners or social conduct [ant: ungraciousness].
Graciousness (n.) The quality of being kind and gentle [syn: benignity, benignancy, graciousness] [ant: malignance, malignancy, malignity].
Grackle (n.) (Zool.) 【鳥】 普通擬八哥；美洲黑羽椋鳥 One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle ({Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle ({Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.
Grackle (n.) (Zool.) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.
Grackle (n.) Glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech [syn: hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula religiosa].
Grackle (n.) Long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage [syn: grackle, crow blackbird].
Gradate (v. t.) To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
Gradate (v. t.) (Chem.) 逐漸變濃 To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
Gradate (v.) Arrange according to grades; "These lines are gradated".
Gradate (v.) Pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another; "The paint on these walls gradates but you don't see it".
Gradation (n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
Gradation (n.) The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
The several gradations of the intelligent universe. -- I. Taylor.
Gradation (n.) (Fine Arts) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
Gradation (n.) (Mus.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
Gradation (v. t.) To form with gradations. [R.]
Gradation (n.) Relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions" [syn: gradation, step]
Gradation (n.) A degree of ablaut [syn: grade, gradation].
Gradation (n.) The act of arranging in grades [syn: gradation, graduation].
Gradational (a.) By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
Gradational (a.) Taking place by degrees [syn: gradational, gradatory, graduated].
Gradatory (a.) Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. -- A. Seward.
Gradatory (a.) (Zool.) Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.
Gradatory (n.) (Arch.) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
Gradatory (a.) Taking place by degrees [syn: gradational, gradatory, graduated].
Grade (n.) [C] 等級；級別；階段；【美】（中，小學的）年級；（某年級的）全體學生A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. -- Buckle.
Grade (n.) In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
Grade (n.) In a railroad or highway: (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
Grade (n.) (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.
At grade, On the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.
Down grade, A descent, as on a graded railroad.
Up grade, An ascent, as on a graded railroad.
Equating for grades. See under Equate.
Grade crossing, A crossing at grade.
Graded (imp. & p. p.) of Grade.
Grading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grade.
Grade (v. t.) 將……分等級；將……分類；【美】給……評分 To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
Grade (v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
Grade (v. t.) (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
Grade (n.) A body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" [syn: class, form, grade, course].
Grade (n.) A relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" [syn: grade, level, tier].
Grade (n.) The gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road had a steep grade".
Grade (n.) One-hundredth of a right angle [syn: grad, grade].
Grade (n.) A degree of ablaut [syn: grade, gradation].
Grade (n.) A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?" [syn: mark, grade, score].
Grade (n.) The height of the ground on which something stands; "the base of the tower was below grade" [syn: grade, ground level].
Grade (n.) A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree, grade, level].
Grade (n.) A variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior Breed.
Grade (v.) Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place].
Grade (v.) Level to the right gradient.
Grade (v. i.) 分等級；屬於某等級；（顏色等）漸次變化，漸次調和 [（+into）] Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework" [syn: grade, score, mark].
Grade (v.) Determine the grade of or assign a grade to.
Gradely (a.) Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Gradely (adv.) Decently; in order. [Prov. Eng.]
Grader (n.) 定等級的人 One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
Grader (n.) 平地機 Specifically: A vehicle used for levelling earth, esp. one with a plow blade suspended from the center, used specifically for grading roads.
Grader (n.) A judge who assigns grades to something.
Gradient (a.) （動物等）行走的 Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. -- Wilkins.
Gradient (a.) 傾斜的 Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
Gradient (a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
Gradient (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
Gradient (n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
Gradient (n.) (Chem., Biochem.) The variation of the concentration of a chemical substance in solution through some linear path; also called concentration gradient; -- usually measured in concentration units per unit distance. Concentration gradients are created naturally, e.g. by the diffusion of a substance from a point of high concentration toward regions of lower concentration within a body of liquid; in laboratory techniques they may be made artificially.
Gradient maker (Biochem.) A device which creates a concentration gradient in a solution within some apparatus; -- used, e. g., for separation of biochemical substances.
Gradient post, A post or stake indicating by its height or by marks on it the grade of a railroad, highway, or embankment, etc., at that spot. Gradin
Compare: Del
Del (n.) (Math.) A differential operator which, operating on a function of several variables, gives the sum of the partial derivatives of the function with respect to the three orthogonal spatial coordinates; -- also called the gradient or grad. It is represented by an inverted Greek capital delta ([nabla]), and is thus because of its shape also called nabla, meaning harp in Hebrew.
Gradient (n.) 坡度，傾斜度；【物】【數】梯度 A graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension.
Gradient (n.) The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient" [syn: gradient, slope].
Gradin (n.) Alt. of Gradine.
Gradine (n.) (Arch.) 階梯形座席之一排；祭壇後放置燭臺的架子 Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. "The gradines of the amphitheeater." -- Layard.
Gradine (n.) A toothed chised by sculptors.
Grading (n.) 定等級；分類；分階段；grade 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.
Grading (n.) The act of arranging in a graduated series [syn: scaling, grading].
Grading (n.) Changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface [syn: grading, leveling]
Grading (n.) Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do" [syn: marking, grading, scoring].
Gradinos (n. pl. ) of Gradino
Gradino (n.) [It.] (Arch.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.
Gradual (a.) 逐漸的，逐步的；（斜坡）平緩的 Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. -- Milton.
Gradual (n.) (R. C. Ch.) （有時大寫）（天主教）彌撒升階聖歌；彌撒升階聖歌集 [C] An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
Gradual (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
Gradual (n.) A series of steps. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Gradual (a.) Proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices" [ant: sudden].
Gradual (a.) (Of a topographical gradient) Not steep or abrupt; "a gradual slope" [ant: steep].
Gradual (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass.
Graduality (n.) The state of being gradual; gradualness. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Graduality (n.) The quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages [syn: graduality, gradualness].
Gradually (adv.) 逐步地，漸漸地 In a gradual manner.
Gradually (adv.) In degree. [Obs.]
Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. -- Grew.
Gradually (adv.) In a gradual manner; "the snake moved gradually toward its victim" [syn: gradually, bit by bit, step by step].
Gradualness (n.) The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
The gradualness of this movement. -- M. Arnold.
The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. -- H. Drummond.
Gradualness (n.) The property possessed by a slope that is very gradual [syn: gradualness, gentleness] [ant: abruptness, precipitousness, steepness].
Gradualness (n.) The quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages [syn: graduality, gradualness].