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gradation
1、 A series made up of successive stages.
2、 A step in an ordered scale.
🌱In the fall, the leaves show gradations of color from deepest red to brightest yellow. 🌳In the Boy Scouts, gradations of rank move upward from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout. A violin or a voice can produce gradations of musical pitch too small to appear in written music. In the 18th century Jonathan Swift could even write of "the several kinds and gradations of laughter, which ladies must daily practice by the looking-glass." degrade 1、 To treat someone or something poorly and without respect.
2、 To make the quality of something worse.
🌱They had feared for years that television was degrading the mental capacities of their children. 🌳In Shakespeare's King Lear, the old king is degraded by the daughters he has given his kingdom to. He finds it degrading, for instance, when the number of his guards is reduced from 100 to 25. His degradation seems complete when, after going mad, he's reduced to living in the wilderness. As you can see, degrade is often a synonym for humiliate. gradient 1、 Slope, grade.
2、 A continuous change in measure, activity, or substance.
🌱Steep temperature gradients in the atmosphere are usually associated with unstable conditions. 🌳Any slope can be called a gradient. In the interstate highway system, the maximum gradient is 6 percent; in other words, the highway may never ascend more than 6 vertical feet over a distance of 100 feet. Any rate of change that's shown on a graph may have a sloped gradient. Suppose the graph's horizontal axis shows the passage of time and its vertical axis shows some activity; if the activity is happening very fast, then the gradient of the line on the graph will be steep, but if it's slow the gradient will be gentle, or gradual. retrograde 1、 Moving or performed in a direction that is backward or opposite to the usual direction.
2、 Moving toward a worse or earlier state.
🌱For the government to cover up the findings of its scientific research institutes was clearly a retrograde step. 🌳Retrograde describes backwardness of one kind or another. If a country decided to go back to amputating the limbs of criminals, we might call that policy retrograde. A retrograde view of women might be one that sees them basically as housekeepers. Mars and Jupiter show retrograde （backward） motion at some stages of their orbits, though this is only because of the way we see them from the earth, not because of any real backward movement.
2、 A step in an ordered scale.
🌱In the fall, the leaves show gradations of color from deepest red to brightest yellow. 🌳In the Boy Scouts, gradations of rank move upward from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout. A violin or a voice can produce gradations of musical pitch too small to appear in written music. In the 18th century Jonathan Swift could even write of "the several kinds and gradations of laughter, which ladies must daily practice by the looking-glass." degrade 1、 To treat someone or something poorly and without respect.
2、 To make the quality of something worse.
🌱They had feared for years that television was degrading the mental capacities of their children. 🌳In Shakespeare's King Lear, the old king is degraded by the daughters he has given his kingdom to. He finds it degrading, for instance, when the number of his guards is reduced from 100 to 25. His degradation seems complete when, after going mad, he's reduced to living in the wilderness. As you can see, degrade is often a synonym for humiliate. gradient 1、 Slope, grade.
2、 A continuous change in measure, activity, or substance.
🌱Steep temperature gradients in the atmosphere are usually associated with unstable conditions. 🌳Any slope can be called a gradient. In the interstate highway system, the maximum gradient is 6 percent; in other words, the highway may never ascend more than 6 vertical feet over a distance of 100 feet. Any rate of change that's shown on a graph may have a sloped gradient. Suppose the graph's horizontal axis shows the passage of time and its vertical axis shows some activity; if the activity is happening very fast, then the gradient of the line on the graph will be steep, but if it's slow the gradient will be gentle, or gradual. retrograde 1、 Moving or performed in a direction that is backward or opposite to the usual direction.
2、 Moving toward a worse or earlier state.
🌱For the government to cover up the findings of its scientific research institutes was clearly a retrograde step. 🌳Retrograde describes backwardness of one kind or another. If a country decided to go back to amputating the limbs of criminals, we might call that policy retrograde. A retrograde view of women might be one that sees them basically as housekeepers. Mars and Jupiter show retrograde （backward） motion at some stages of their orbits, though this is only because of the way we see them from the earth, not because of any real backward movement.
GRAD comes from the Latin noun gradus,"step" or "degree," and the verb gradi, "to step, walk." A grade is a step up or down on a scale of some kind, and a gradual change takes place in small steps.🌸