Degree
[dɪ'griː] or [dɪ'ɡri]
Definition
(noun.) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; 'a moderate grade of intelligence'; 'a high level of care is required'; 'it is all a matter of degree'.
(noun.) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); 'murder in the second degree'; 'a second degree burn'.
(noun.) the highest power of a term or variable.
(noun.) a measure for arcs and angles; 'there are 360 degrees in a circle'.
(noun.) a unit of temperature on a specified scale; 'the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature'.
(noun.) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; 'a remarkable degree of frankness'; 'at what stage are the social sciences?'.
Editor: Lyle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A step, stair, or staircase.
(n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
(n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
(n.) Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
(n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.
(n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.
(n.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
(n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.
(n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
(n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
(n.) A line or space of the staff.
Inputed by Kelly
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Step, stage.[2]. Class, rank, order, grade, quality, station, standing.[3]. Measure, extent.[4]. Remove (in the line of descent).[5]. Division (as on a scale), interval, space.
Typist: Ursula
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grade, rank, stage, step, extent, measure, mark, rate, position, quality,class, station, range, quantity, amount, limit, order
ANT:Space, mass, magnitude, size, numbers
Checker: Mattie
Definition
n. a grade or step: one of a series of advances: relative position: rank: extent: a mark of distinction conferred by universities whether earned by examination or granted as a mark of honour: the 360th part of a circle: 60 geographical miles: nearness of relationship: comparative amount of guilt: one of the three stages (positive comparative superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.—By degrees by little and little gradually; Forbidden degrees the degrees of consanguinity and affinity within which it is not permitted to marry; Songs of degrees or Songs of ascents Psalms cxx.-cxxxiv. either because sung by the Jews returning from captivity or by the Jews coming up annually to attend the feasts at Jerusalem; To a degree to a great degree to an extreme.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- If you doubt that in the least degree, I will never write it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And it was so delightful that this higher degree of sympathy should be reached through their interest in Lily Bart! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Fred, you know, has taken his degree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I beg to say, that when I use the word, gentleman, I use it in the sense in which the degree may be attained by any man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He pointed behind him at the boat, and gasped to that degree that he dropped upon the stones to get his breath. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I didn't go to do it, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, in some degree abashed by the very unexpected occurrence of the incident. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Discovery, research, inquiry in new lines, inventions, finally came to be either the social fashion, or in some degree tolerable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We fought behind breastworks, which accounts in some degree for the disparity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect, he continued, disregarding my remonstrance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. Plato. The Republic.
- The distillation should be carried to, say, 600 degrees or 700 degrees Fahr. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nobody got enough to eat; the bedclothes were too short and too thin; it was 28 degrees below zero, and the wash-water was frozen solid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I wish to lead up to it by degrees. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By the same degrees his attention became concentrated on the knife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By degrees it became an enormous injury to me that he stood before the fire. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If the contents of the silo heat up to different degrees in different places we cannot expect them to be uniform in quality, though all will be eaten by the stock. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The space between these two points, which represent the temperatures of boiling water and of melting ice, is divided into 180 equal parts called degrees. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We are not much satisfyed with the thing itself; and are still less apt to feel any new degrees of self-satisfaction upon its account. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I must confess,' says the mild little gentleman, coming to his answer by degrees, 'that I felt some compunctions when Mr Fledgeby mentioned it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We had to bank the tracks up to an angle of thirty degrees before we could turn the curve and stay on. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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