Graduate
Graduate , transitive verb
[Compare French graduer. See Graduate, n., Grade.]
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.
(Chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Collocations (1)
Graduating engine , a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.
Graduate , intransitive verb
1.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
2.
(Zoology) 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.
Graduate , noun
[Late Latin graduatus, past participle of graduare to admit to a degree, from Latin gradus grade. See Grade, 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.
Graduate , adjective
[See Graduate, n. & v.]
Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate
and subordinate stages.