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Graduate

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Noun

1. alum, alumna, alumnus, grad, graduate

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

2. graduate

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

Verb

3. graduate

receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies

Example Sentences:
'She graduated in 1990'

4. graduate

confer an academic degree upon

Example Sentences:
'This school graduates 2,000 students each year'

5. calibrate, fine-tune, graduate

make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

Example Sentences:
'calibrate an instrument'
'graduate a cylinder'

Adjective

6. graduate, postgraduate

of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

Example Sentences:
'graduate courses'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Graduate

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verb (ˈɡrædjʊˌeɪt )
4. 
to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
5. (transitive) mainly US and Canadian
to confer a degree, diploma, etc, upon
6. (transitive)
to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
7. (transitive)
to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
8. (intransitive; often foll by to)
to change by degrees (from something to something else)
noun (ˈɡrædjʊɪt )
1. 
a. 
a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college
b. 
(as modifier)
a graduate profession
2. US and Canadian
a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
3. US
a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Graduate

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noun
1. 
a person who has completed a course of study at a school or college and has received a degree or diploma
2. 
a flask, tube, or other container marked with a progressive series of degrees (lines or numbers or both) for measuring liquids or solids
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈgraduˌated or ˈgraduˌating
3. 
to give a degree or diploma to in recognition of the completion of a course of study at a school or college
4.  Informal
to become a graduate of
to graduate college
5. 
to mark (a flask, tube, gauge, etc.) with degrees for measuring
6. 
a. 
to arrange or classify into grades according to amount, size, etc.
b. 
to arrange in grades or stages
graduated income tax
verb intransitive
7. 
to become a graduate of a school or college
8. 
to change, esp. advance, by degrees
adjective
9. 
having been graduated from a school, college, etc.
a graduate engineer
10.  US
designating, of, for, or participating in instruction or research in various fields leading to degrees above the bachelor's
graduate courses, graduate students

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Graduate

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v. grad·u·at·ed, grad·u·at·ing, grad·u·ates
v.intr.
1. To be granted an academic degree or diploma: Most of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.
2.
a. To change gradually or by degrees: "The most weighty of all the arguments against treating the races of man as distinct species, is that they graduate into each other" (Charles Darwin).
b. To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity: After a month of diving instruction, they all graduated to back flips.
v.tr.
1.
a. To grant an academic degree or diploma to: The school has graduated many gifted chemists.
b. Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from: How many chemists graduated the Institute last year?
2. To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades: graduate an income tax.
3. To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement: graduate a thermometer.
n. (-ĭt)
1. One who has received an academic degree or diploma.
2. A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.
adj. (-ĭt)
1. Possessing an academic degree or diploma.
2. Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree: graduate courses.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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