Graduate
['grædʒʊət;-djʊət] or [ˈɡrædʒuˌet]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Mark with degrees, divide into regular intervals.[2]. Adjust, adapt, proportion, regulate.
v. n. Take a degree, receive a diploma.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- No doubt he attributed it for the time to the presumption of a graduate of West Point over a volunteer pure and simple. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Dud Dudley, the Oxford Graduate and his Furnace, 1619. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Tyler was a graduate of Harvard, and had a very clear enunciation, and, in sharp contrast to Prentice, he was a large man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These two kinds of flowers sometimes differ wonderfully in structure, yet may be seen to graduate into each other on the same plant. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We have also what are called monstrosities; but they graduate into varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Laurie graduates then, and you'd enjoy commencement as something new. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The chief quartermaster and the chief commissary were graduates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The altitude was recorded according to the position of the sight attached to the graduated arc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Graduating well, you mean? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Nell