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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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]: | |
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Graduated \Grad"u*a"ted\, a. 1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. {Graduated} {tube, bottle, cap, [or] glass}, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- {Graduated spring} (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs. | |
