Definition of Graduate

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Graduate

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.

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.

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.

To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

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.

A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

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Graduate Quotations

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
R. Lee Ermey

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
Carol Burnett

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Fiona Apple

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Doug Larson

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You're a Big Boy Now.
Francis Ford Coppola

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.
Steve Spurrier

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
Chen Ning Yang

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker

Graduate Translations

graduate in Dutch is afgestudeerd, gediplomeerd
graduate in German is promoviere, promovieren, einteilen, abstufen
graduate in Norwegian is kandidat
graduate in Portuguese is graduado
graduate in Spanish is graduado
graduate in Swedish is graduera, akademisk student

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