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English Dictionary: Graduate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
graduate
adj
  1. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses"
    Synonym(s): graduate(a), postgraduate
n
  1. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
    Synonym(s): alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad
  2. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
v
  1. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"
  2. confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
  3. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
    Synonym(s): calibrate, graduate, fine-tune
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graduated}p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Graduating}.] [Cf. F. 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.
                                                                              --Browne.
  
      4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by
            evaporation, as a fluid.
  
      {Graduating engine}, a dividing engine. See {Dividing}
            engine, under {Dividing}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. i.
      1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as,
            sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes
            graduates into quartz.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) 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.                     --Latham.
  
                     He was brought to their bar and asked where he had
                     graduated.                                          --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, n. [LL. graduatus, p. p. of graduare to
      admit to a degree, fr. L. 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, or flask; a measuring glass used by
            apothecaries and chemists. See under {Graduated}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, a. [See {Graduate}, n. & v.]
      Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
  
               Beginning with the genus, passing through all the
               graduate and subordinate stages.            --Tatham.
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