Graduate
['grædʒʊət;-djʊət] or [ˈɡrædʒuˌet]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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.) confer an academic degree upon; 'This school graduates 2,000 students each year'.
(verb.) receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; 'She graduated in 1990'.
(adj.) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; 'graduate courses' .
錄入:萨姆纳--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
(v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
(v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
(v. i.) 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, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
(n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
德洛丽丝校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Mark with degrees, divide into regular intervals.[2]. Adjust, adapt, proportion, regulate.
v. n. Take a degree, receive a diploma.
埃弗雷特編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
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編輯:塔比瑟
例句/造句/用法:
- No doubt he attributed it for the time to the presumption of a graduate of West Point over a volunteer pure and simple. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But when he was about to graduate, he wrote to his father, a well-known clergyman of Charlestown, Massachusetts, I am now released from college, and am attending to painting. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Dud Dudley, the Oxford Graduate and his Furnace, 1619. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I remember the visit of one expert, a well-known electrician, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and who then represented a Baltimore gas company. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Tyler was a graduate of Harvard, and had a very clear enunciation, and, in sharp contrast to Prentice, he was a large man. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- These two kinds of flowers sometimes differ wonderfully in structure, yet may be seen to graduate into each other on the same plant. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We have also what are called monstrosities; but they graduate into varieties. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Laurie graduates then, and you'd enjoy commencement as something new. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The chief quartermaster and the chief commissary were graduates. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It consisted of a graduated arc of soli d polished brass five inches broad, two inches thick, and with a radius of about six and three quarters feet. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- So that if you want to measure the length of anything you use a rule or a yard stick, or some other scale which is graduated into fractions of the whole standard measure. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity--the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The altitude was recorded according to the position of the sight attached to the graduated arc. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Graduating well, you mean? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Graduating in 1843, I was at the military academy from one to four years with all cadets who graduated between 1840 and 1846--seven classes. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Graduating at West Point, as he did, during the second year of the war, he had won his way up to the command of a corps before its close. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:内尔