Hypertext Webster Gateway: "graduate"
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\, 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\, 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.
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["o]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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
graduate
adj : of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
"graduate courses" [syn: {graduate(a)}, {postgraduate}]
n 1: a person who has received a degree from a school (high
school or college or university) [syn: {alumnus}, {alumna},
{alum}, {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 for optimal functioning "calibrate an
instrument" [syn: {calibrate}, {fine-tune}]
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