One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
A thick slice, especially of bread.
To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
A calibration marking.
A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
A diatonic succession of chords.
Apophony.
A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
To form with gradations.