graduate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a…

   A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

   • If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
2. 2

   A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a…

   A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.

3. 3

   A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.

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   1. 4

      A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

   2. 5

      graduated, arranged by degrees

   3. 6

      holding an academic degree

   4. 7

      relating to an academic degree

   5. 8

      To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a…

      To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

      • The man graduated in 1967.
      • Trisha graduated from college.
      • After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a law degree in Canada, then worked as an environmental lawyer in Israel before settling on the south side of Youngstown.
   6. 9

      To be certified as having earned a degree from

      To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).

      • Trisha graduated college.
   7. 10

      To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

      • Indiana University graduated the student.
      • The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
   8. 11

      To mark (something) with degrees

      To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

   9. 12

      To change gradually.

      • As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.
      • Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death.
      • sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
   10. 13

       To prepare gradually

       To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.

       • to graduate the heat of an oven
       • Dyers, who advance and graduate their colours with salts.
   11. 14

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

   12. 15

       To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

   13. 16

       To approve (a feature) for general release.

       • We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.
   14. 17

       Of an idol

       Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.

       • Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.

The neighborhood

• antonymstudentantonym(s) of “person recognized for having finished studies”
• antonymdrop-outantonym(s) of “person recognized for having finished studies”
• neighborgrade
• neighborgraduation