When your teacher stays up until four in the morning assigning scores to student work, that's the grading of papers. Grading can also mean smoothing a surface, as in grading a lawn before planting seeds.
The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.
Noun
 evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"
Noun
 changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
Noun
 the act of arranging in a graduated series
p. pr. & vb. n.
 of Grade
n.
 The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of
   bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or
   grade.
Grading
The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.
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