Graduate

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Graduated p. pr. & vb. n. Graduating ( ).]
	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.
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.	(Zool.) 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.
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, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
a.	1.	Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated. Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. - Tatham.

Noun	1.	graduate - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) Synonyms: alumna, alumnus, grad, alum
	2.	graduate - 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	1.	graduate - receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"
	2.	graduate - confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
	3.	graduate - make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" Synonyms: calibrate, fine-tune
Adj.	1.	graduate - of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" Synonyms: postgraduate

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