Graduate(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.
Graduate(n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
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.
Graduate(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.
Graduate(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.
Graduate(n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Graduate(n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Graduate(v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
Graduate(v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
Graduate(v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
Graduated(a.) Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
Graduated(a.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
Graduated(imp. & p. p.) of Graduate
Graduating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Graduate
Graduation(n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
Graduation(n.) The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.
Graduation(n.) The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
Graduator(n.) One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.
Graduator(n.) An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals.
Graduator(n.) An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
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