Definition of graduate
- 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.