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Graduate   /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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"Graduate" Quotes from Famous Books



... guardian, etc., but with the ignoble positions of pioneer, train-soldier, dredger, cabin-boy, fagot- maker, and exciseman. There he will wait, until death, thinning the ranks, enables him to advance a step. Under such circumstances a man, a graduate of the polytechnic school and capable of becoming a Vauban, may die a laborer on a second class road, or ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
... The graduate of such a school knew how to make a whole watch, but he usually limited his work to some one part. Every part of a watch was made expressly for that watch, but sometimes a hundred different persons ...
— Makers of Many Things • Eva March Tappan
... a necessity of their moral organism as to their animal being is the air they breathe. Such a nature was Nelson's. His face to-day wore that characteristic expression by which every man of his command learned to graduate his expectation of an action; it was the very picture of satisfaction and good humor. He wheeled his horse half around as the rear of our brigade passed him, and a blander tone of command I never heard than when, in his rapid, authoritative ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... he have with the curate of his village (a learned man, and a graduate of Siguenza) as to which had been the better knight, Palmerin of England or Amadis of Gaul. Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... was a brace game, from which no player arose with any notable winning except occasionally when the "house" felt it a good bit of advertising to graduate a handsome winner—and then it was usually a "capper," whose gains were in a few minutes passed back into ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson


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