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" Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development."
Georges Cuvier

Meaning of "gradual" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRADUAL

From Medieval Latin graduālis relating to steps, from Latin gradus a step.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GRADUAL

ˈɡrædjʊəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRADUAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gradual can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GRADUAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gradual

The Gradual is a chant or hymn in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations. In the Tridentine Mass it was and is sung after the reading or chanting of the Epistle and before the Alleluia, or, during penitential seasons, before the Tract. In the Mass of Paul VI the gradual corresponds to the Responsorial Psalm. There is the option to replace this psalm with the gradual, but its use is extremely rare. It is part of the Proper of the Mass. Gradual can also refer to a book collecting all the musical items of the Mass. The official such book for the Roman Rite is the Roman Gradual. Other such books include the Dominican Gradual.

Definition of gradual in the English dictionary

The first definition of gradual in the dictionary is occurring, developing, moving, etc, in small stages. Other definition of gradual is not steep or abrupt. Gradual is also an antiphon or group of several antiphons, usually from the Psalms, sung or recited immediately after the epistle at Mass.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRADUAL

annual · bisexual · casual · conceptual · decidual · Emmanuel · fuel · habitual · homosexual · individual · interindividual · manual · residual · residuals · ritual · Samuel · sensual · sexual · spiritual · transsexual

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRADUAL

gradiometer · gradualism · gradualist · gradualistic · graduality · gradually · gradualness · graduand · graduate · graduate school · graduate student · graduated · graduated pension · graduated pension scheme · graduateship · graduation · graduation ceremony · graduation day · graduator · gradus

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRADUAL

actual · as per usual · bilingual · dividual · dual · equal · eventual · factual · intellectual · multilingual · mutual · nonindividual · subdual · superindividual · the usual · unusual · usual · vidual · virtual · visual

Synonyms and antonyms of gradual in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GRADUAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gradual» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «gradual» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF GRADUAL

Find out the translation of gradual to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gradual from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gradual» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

逐渐的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

gradual
570 millions of speakers
en

English

gradual
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

क्रमिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تَدْرِيجيّ
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

постепенный
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

gradual
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

gradiometer
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

graduel
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Gradiometer
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

allmählich
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

徐々の
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

점진적인
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Gradiometer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dần dần
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கிரேடியோமீட்டர்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रेनिओमीटर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

gradyometre
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

graduale
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

stopniowy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

поступовий
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

treptat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σταδιακός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geleidelike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gradvis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gradvis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gradual

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRADUAL»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of gradual
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gradual

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «GRADUAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gradual.
1
A. R. Ammons
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
2
Rosecrans Baldwin
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.
3
William Banting
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
4
Xavier Becerra
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
5
Shane Black
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.
6
Vladimir Bukovsky
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.
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Georges Cuvier
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
8
Gavin DeGraw
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
9
Jenna Dewan
I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.
10
Idris Elba
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRADUAL»

Discover the use of gradual in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gradual and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gradual Creolization: Studies Celebrating Jacques Arends
This volume provides the multi-faceted groundwork and expert discussion that will help formulate further a model of gradual creolization, as called for by the work of the late Jacques Arends.
Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso, Margot van den Berg, 2009
2
Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese ...
This volume examines the historical basis of the debate over sudden versus gradual approaches to enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism seeing it as part of a recurrent polarity in Chinese history and thought.
Peter N. Gregory, 1991
3
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for ...
Describes a purposeful classroom structure that relies on four phases.
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, 2008
4
A Gradual Awakening
Poet and meditation teacher Levine writes simply and gently about his own personal experiences with and insights into vipassana meditation. An inspiring book for anyone interested in deep personal growth. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Stephen Levine, 2010
5
Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan's Gradual ...
This book argues that a more complex gradual transformation is unfolding in Japan a process evident in many other post-industrial economies.
Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff, Kent Anderson, 2008
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Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual ...
Approaching the Great Perfection looks at a seminal figure of this lineage, Jigme Lingpa, an eighteenth-century scholar and meditation master whose cycle of teachings, the Longchen Nyingtig, has been handed down through generations as a ...
Sam Van Schaik, 2013
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Gradual Psalms for the Occasional Services
Ad libitum alleluia verses are included in the books for Years A, B, and C. Reprint permission is given for local parish use. (176 pp)
Church Publishing, 2000
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Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "race" in New ...
Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well.
Joanne Pope Melish, 1998
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Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America: The Costa Rican ...
In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.
Mary A. Clark, 2001
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God's Gradual Self-Revelation to Mankind
Michael J. Lorenzo is an ordained permanent deacon, now inactive, in the Roman Catholic Christian Church. He was instructed by some of the foremost exegetes and theologians in the United States and around the world.
Michael J. Lorenzo, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRADUAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gradual is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pittsburgh gasoline prices continue gradual decline
Pittsburgh-area gasoline prices averaged about $2.94 a gallon this morning, a few cents cheaper than one week ago. Average prices in the ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
2
Pragmatic, Gradual Privatization of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
There are sound reasons for the Chinese preference for pragmatic, gradual change in the reform of its state-owned sector, where intervention is ... «EconoMonitor, Jul 15»
3
Does St Tropez gradual in-shower fake tan actually work? The jury's …
Maintaining a healthy-looking fake tan is no easy job – streaks, patchy elbows, waiting hours to dry, and finding time to apply another bloody ... «Metro, Jul 15»
4
China Optimistic Of Gradual Increase In Imports From Malaysia
China is optimistic Malaysia's exports to the country will increase gradually, said spokesman of China's General Administration of Customs ... «malaysiandigest.com, Jul 15»
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Why a gradual migration to the cloud is the best approach
Backup and storage providers fully understand the difficulty IT professionals can experience when trying to demonstrate to a Finance Director ... «Information Age, Jul 15»
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We work for gradual accession of Bulgaria to the Schengen area in …
“We believe that a gradual accession to Schengen, provided the process with new security requirements, may be more convincing to the ... «Focus News, Jul 15»
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Niyi Osundare: Author laments on the gradual extinction of Nigeria …
At the fifth edition of the Literary event christened 'Artmosphere" held at the NuStreams Conference Center on Iyaganku Road, off Alalubosa ... «Pulse Nigeria, Jul 15»
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Fed policymaker flags up US rate rise
Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, will this week testify to Congress having pledged to take a “gradual” approach to rate rises. The Fed has set itself ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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Stocks end much higher; Yellen predicts gradual interest rate hike …
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen predicts a gradual rise in interest rates later this year, if key indicators of economic health continue ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
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Beauty: how to avoid self-tan disasters
Almost as bargainous and with an almost foolproof glow is L'Oréal Sublime Bronze Gradual Tan (£6.99). It has a thicker consistency that ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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