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.