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- Gradual - n. - 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.
- Gradual - n. - 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. - A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
- Gradual - n. - A series of steps.
- Graduality - n. - The state of being gradual; gradualness.
- Gradually - adv. - In a gradual manner.
- Gradually - adv. - In degree.
- Gradualness - n. - The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
- Accretion - n. - The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
- Decrease - v. - A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
- Degeneration - n. - A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- Swell - n. - A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
- Degradation - n. - A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
- Rallentando - a. - Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
- Differentiation - n. - The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
- Lapse - n. - A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
- Hard - superl. - Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
- Geosynclinal - n. - the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.
- Waste - v. - The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
- Development - n. - The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.
- Settlement - n. - The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
- Crescendo - n. - A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
- Apron - n. - A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
- Azymous - a. - Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.
- Effloresce - v. i. - To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
- Gradual - n. - 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.
- Glide - n. - A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
- Grow - v. i. - To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
- Encroacher - n. - One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
- Slide - n. - A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- Taper - n. - A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
- Steal - v. t. - To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
- Gradation - n. - A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
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