graduate

Definitions of graduate in various dictionaries:

noun - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

noun - a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume

verb - receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies

verb - confer an academic degree upon

verb - make fine adj ustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

adj - of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

To be granted an academic degree or diploma: Two thirds of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.

To change gradually or by degrees.

To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity: After a summer of diving instruction, they had all graduated to back flips.

To grant an academic degree or diploma to: The teachers hope to graduate her this spring.

To receive an academic degree from.

To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades.

To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement.

One who has received an academic degree or diploma.

A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.

Possessing an academic degree or diploma.

The verb graduate has denoted the action of conferring an academic degree or diploma since at least 1421, as in She was graduated from Yale in 1980.

verb - to receive an academic degree or diploma

GRADUATE - Graduate refers to someone who has been the subject of a graduation, namely, someone who has completed the requirements of an academic degree. A grad...