GRADUATE
graduate
Noun
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution
- If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
- A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring
Verb
- To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. See note on “from” usage.
- The man graduated in 1967.
- Trisha graduated from college.
- Trisha graduated college.
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- Indiana University graduated the student.
- The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
- To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
- To change gradually.
- sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- to graduate the heat of an oven
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
Adjective
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