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Graduate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To be granted an academic degree or diploma: Two thirds of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.

verb-intransitive. To change gradually or by degrees.

verb-intransitive. To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity: After a summer of diving instruction, they had all graduated to back flips.

v. To grant an academic degree or diploma to: The teachers hope to graduate her this spring.

v. Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from.

v. To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades.

v. To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement.

n. One who has received an academic degree or diploma.

n. A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.

adj. Possessing an academic degree or diploma.

adj. Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree: graduate courses.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution

n. A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school

n. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring

adj. graduated, arranged by degrees

adj. holding an academic degree

adj. relating to an academic degree

v. To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. See note on “from” usage.

v. To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

v. To mark a scale on (something) so that it can be used for measuring

v. To change gradually

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

v. To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma.

v. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.

v. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

verb-intransitive. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off

verb-intransitive. To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

verb-intransitive. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

n. One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

n. A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

adj. Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or divisions; divide into small regular distances: as, to graduate a thermometer, a scale, etc.

To arrange or place in a series of grades or gradations; establish gradation in: as, to graduate punishment.

To confer a degree upon at the close of a course of study, as a student in a college or university; certify by diploma, after examination, the attainment of a certain grade of learning by: as, he was graduated A. B., and afterward A. M.

To prepare gradually; temper or modify by degrees.

To raise to a higher degree, as of fineness, consistency, etc.: as, to graduate brine by evaporation.

To pass by degrees; change or pass gradually.

To receive a degree from a college or university, after examination in a course of study; be graduated.

Arranged in successive steps or degrees; graduated.

Having received a degree; having been graduated: as, a graduate student.

n. One who has been admitted to a degree in a college or university, or by some professional incorporated society, after examination.

n. A graduated glass vessel used for measuring liquids, as by chemists, apothecaries, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

v. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

n. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

n. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts

v. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies

v. confer an academic degree upon

Word Usage

"I might add, in the health law, they did do some reconfiguration of what they call the graduate medical education slots."

Equivalent

high

Antonym

student drop-out

Verb Form

graduated graduates graduating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

correct set adjust have receive

Cross Reference

pass classify calibrate

Variant

graduated

Form

graduated graduating graduator

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

graduated alumnus alumna postgraduate laureate

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

undergraduate

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

undergraduate student graduation college pupil