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

noun

Graduate n.

1.

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.

2.

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

verb

Graduate v. t. (past & past part. graduated; pres. part. graduating)

1.

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.

2.

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; as, he was graduated at Yale College.

3.

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. "Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts."

4.

(Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.

Graduate v. i.

1.

To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

2.

(Zool.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

3.

To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. "He graduated at Oxford." "He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated."

adjective

Graduate adj. Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated. "Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages."

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Etymology of 'Graduate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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