'Graduate' definitions:
Definition of 'graduate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate]
noun
A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad]
noun
A measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
verb
Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"
verb
Confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
verb
Definition of 'Graduate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Graduate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. [1913 Webster]
- He graduated at Oxford. --Latham. [1913 Webster]
- He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Graduate'
From: GCIDE
- Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduatedp. pr. & vb. n. Graduating.] [Cf. F. graduer. See Graduate, n., Grade.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. --Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. [1913 Webster]
- Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Graduate'
From: GCIDE
- Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, a. [See Graduate, n. & v.] Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated. [1913 Webster]
- Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. --Tatham. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'graduate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academic,
- adept,
- adjust,
- Admirable Crichton,
- advance,
- aggrandize,
- alumna,
- alumnae,
- alumni,
- alumnus,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- appraise,
- appreciate,
- artisan,
- artist,
- assay,
- assess,
- attache,
- authority,
- autodidactic,
- bachelor,
- be blooded,
- be successful,
- bookish,
- bulk,
- calculate,
- calibrate,
- calibrated,
- caliper,
- catch on,
- check a parameter,
- click,
- college graduate,
- college man,
- college-bred,
- collegiate,
- come along,
- come off,
- come on,
- compute,
- connaisseur,
- connect,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- cordon bleu,
- crack shot,
- craftsman,
- cross-disciplinary,
- dead shot,
- decrease,
- degrees,
- develop,
- dial,
- differentiate,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- divide,
- doctoral candidate,
- educated class,
- educated man,
- elder statesman,
- elevate,
- enlarge,
- ennoble,
- estimate,
- evaluate,
- exalt,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- farewell,
- fathom,
- gain,
- gain ground,
- gauge,
- get ahead,
- get along,
- go,
- go ahead,
- go forward,
- go great guns,
- go off,
- go over,
- go over big,
- go to town,
- grad,
- gradate,
- gradational,
- grade,
- gradual,
- graduate student,
- graduate-professional,
- graduated,
- group,
- grow better,
- handy man,
- hierarchic,
- improve,
- increase,
- interdisciplinary,
- journeyman,
- kick upstairs,
- knight,
- learned,
- look up,
- make a hit,
- make headway,
- make progress,
- make strides,
- mark,
- marksman,
- match,
- measure,
- meet with success,
- meliorate,
- mend,
- mensurate,
- meritocracy,
- mete,
- meter,
- no slouch,
- pace,
- pass,
- pedagogical,
- perk up,
- pick up,
- plumb,
- politician,
- postgraduate,
- prefer,
- prevail,
- prize,
- pro,
- probe,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- progress,
- progressive,
- promote,
- proportion,
- prosper,
- qualify,
- quantify,
- quantize,
- raise,
- range,
- rank,
- rate,
- regular,
- savant,
- scalar,
- scale,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolboyish,
- schoolgirlish,
- schoolish,
- shade off,
- shape up,
- shark,
- sharp,
- show improvement,
- size,
- size up,
- skyrocket,
- sophomoric,
- sort,
- sound,
- span,
- statesman,
- step,
- studentlike,
- studious,
- succeed,
- survey,
- take,
- take a reading,
- take off,
- technical adviser,
- technician,
- triangulate,
- undergraduate,
- up,
- upgrade,
- valuate,
- value,
- weigh,
- work well,
- work wonders