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gradate

[gray-dayt] / ˈgreɪ deɪt /


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"The windows will gradate, one side will start all white and become gray," Irwin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2014

Still others use it to describe the ombré plaids popular in Western shirts in which two colors gradate from one to the other.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2010

When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to tint the letters into shape with the pencil point.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin

From this point the dark and light masses gradate in different directions until they merge above the ships' sails.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Nay, I think it may even be a question whether we ought not to resolve that the line should never gradate itself at all, but terminate quite bluntly!

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

Next, he had to meticulously coat each strand with several gradated shades of gray spray paint to create an image that would only be clearly visible when viewed at a distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Two gradated from separate high schools in the Grosse Pointe district: Brian Fraser, president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Arielle Anderson.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

The standout is “Lifting Up the Sunny World,” a field of gradated oranges inside craggy green and blue borders.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022

The cover art features the two lawyers smiling blondly, superimposed over a baby-blue gradated background that looks a little like a sky.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2021

The three broad zones of absorption which interrupt it are sharp towards the red, insensibly gradated towards the violet end.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

On Gabriel’s wings you can make out every last feather, gently gradating from green to gold to grapefruit pink.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020

The practical principle employed in producing them is important, and consists in the blending and gradating by mixture, while we avoid the compounding of contrasting colours.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

The swinging lines should vary in thickness along their course, getting darker as they pass certain parts, and gradating into lighter lines at other parts according to the effect desired.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Nearly all expression of form, in drawing, depends on your power of gradating delicately; and the gradation is always most skillful which passes from one tint into another very little paler.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin

Another very effective arrangement may be made by gradating a broad border from a white centre, through clear pinks on either side to bright scarlets, and ending at each extremity with deepest crimsons.

From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley


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