Crossword clues for gradate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gradate \Gra"date\, v. t. [See Grade.]
To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
(Chem.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, back-formation from gradation. Related: Gradated; gradating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To change imperceptibly from one gradation of tone etc. to another 2 To arrange in order of grades 3 (context chemistry English) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration.
WordNet
v. arrange according to grades; "These lines are gradated"
pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another; "The paint on these walls gradates but you don't see it"
Usage examples of "gradate".
The blocks, however, which are used for large masses of colour, or for gradated tones, are moistened over the whole or a large part of the surface of the block, and if the wood is thin, and not well mounted across the ends, the block soon expands sufficiently to throw the register out.
The simplest way of making a gradation from strong to pale colour is to dip one corner of a broad brush into the colour and the other corner into water so that the water just runs into the colour: then, by squeezing the whole width of the brush broadly between the thumb and forefinger so that most of the water is squeezed out, the brush is left charged with a tint gradated from side to side.
It is easy in this way to print a very delicately gradated tint from full colour to white.
This effect is often seen at the top of the sky in a Japanese landscape print where a dark blue band of colour is printed with a soft edge suddenly gradated to white, or sometimes the plumage of birds is printed with sudden gradations.
Next, here are two examples of the gradated shading expressive of the forms within the outline, by two masters of the chiaroscuro school.
A room at the far end of the hallway was provided for communal bathing, its floors tiled and sunken at gradating levels in the various pools, the water continually flowing and cool and clean.
A cloud shifted temporarily away from the sun and a curtain of light moved suddenly across the bluffs and the gradated layers of the river basin.
Looking down from the penthouse, she could see the gradated tiers of the Ziggurat, each draped with flowers, some artificial, some real, depending on the season.
The trees were whole kilometers away and no bigger than a fingernail paring, and yet she could see the shape of their every branch in the clear still air, stenciled against the colors around the sun, great bands of subtle, gradated, desert color, umber to amber to translucent pearly white.