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10 Language-to-English Dictionariessopravvalutare
Pronunciation / Transliteration: sopravvalutare
"Il professore tende a sopravvalutare i compiti."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
To assign an excessively high grade or score to a student's work or performance.
"Some professors tend to overgrade essays when the student shows a strong initial effort." - 2
To excavate or level earth to a depth lower than the specified engineering grade.
"The heavy machinery operator accidentally began to overgrade the northern section of the construction site."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Formed in English via the prefix 'over-' (denoting excess or superiority, derived from Old English 'ofer') combined with the verb 'grade' (from Latin 'gradus', meaning a step, degree, or stage). Emerging in educational and construction contexts during the mid-20th century, it expanded to describe both excessively lenient academic grading and the mechanical process of excavating earth above the established design grade.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Overgrade" is said worldwide
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surnoter
Transliteration: surnoter
"Il est facile de surnoter les élèves qui participent activement."
überbewerten
Transliteration: ueberbewerten
"Man sollte die Leistung nicht überbewerten."
sopravvalutare
Transliteration: sopravvalutare
"Il professore tende a sopravvalutare i compiti."
sobrecalificar
Transliteration: sobrecalificar
"Evite sobrecalificar los exámenes para mantener la objetividad."
superavaliar
Transliteration: superavaliar
"O professor foi acusado de superavaliar as provas."
अधिक अंक देना
Transliteration: adhik ank dena
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"शिक्षक द्वारा छात्रों को अधिक अंक देना गलत है।"
给分过高
Transliteration: gěifēn guògāo
Script: 中文汉字
"这位教授有时候给分过高。"
후하게 채점하다
Transliteration: huhage chajeomhada
Script: 한국어 한글
"교수님이 시험을 너무 후하게 채점하셨습니다."
甘く採点する
Transliteration: amaku saitensuru
Script: 日本語
"その先生は学生のレポートを甘く採点する傾向がある。"
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