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/grˈædʒəwət/ /grˈædʒəwˌeɪt/ /grˈædʒuwət/ /grˈædʒuˌeɪt/ Listen

Graduate

noun

1.

A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university). Synonyms: alum, alumna, alumnus, grad.

2.

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

(past & past part. graduated; pres. part. graduating)

1.

Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies.

2.

Confer an academic degree upon.

3.

Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring. Synonyms: calibrate, fine-tune. "Graduate a cylinder"

adjective

1.

Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree. Synonym: postgraduate.

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"Graduate" Quotes from Famous Books

... its historical ties to Western Europe, enjoys a GDP per capita substantially higher than that of the other transitioning economies of Central Europe. In March 2004, Slovenia became the first transition country to graduate from borrower status to donor partner at the World Bank. Privatization of the economy proceeded at an accelerated pace in 2002-03, and the budget deficit dropped from 3.0% of GDP in 2002 to 1.6% in 2003. Despite the economic slowdown in Europe ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... orchard Rosalind sat with her back against the tree in the same spot where her fancy had created the dancing life of her childhood and where as a young woman graduate of the Willow Springs High School she had come to try to break through the wall that separated her from life. The sun had disappeared and the grey shadows of night were creeping over the grass, lengthening the shadows cast ...

— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson

... movement. The cultivation of the art of expression and of public speaking, now very generally provided for in college and university curriculums, is of especial significance to the work of this association. For it is not alone of importance that the graduate who leaves his alma mater should be indoctrinated with a message of peace for the world; that his message may be effective, he must also have attained some proficiency in the art of clear and forceful diction and ...

— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

... the medical profession took the ground that women might enjoy the benefit of a little medical education but they were denied the facilities for any thorough training or for any research work. Mary Putnam secured her graduate degree from the great medical school of the University of Paris, being the first woman who had been admitted to the school since the fourteenth century. Returning after six years of thorough training, she did much during the remaining ...

— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker

... used was a small Grenet bichromate of potash pile, which was easy to graduate on account of the depth to which the zinc could be immersed. This pile was connected with the inductor of a small Ruhmkorff coil, whose armature was connected with a snaffle-bit ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various

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