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   graduate

   noun

   • 1. a person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree.
   • ▪ a person who has received a high school diploma: North American "she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High"
   • 2. a graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists. North American

   verb

   • 1. successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school: "he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990" Similar qualifypass one's examspassbe certifiedbe licensedtake an academic degreereceive/get one's degreebecome a graduatecomplete one's studies
   • ▪ receive an academic degree from: informal US "he graduated Harvard in 1965"
   • ▪ confer a degree or other academic qualification on: North American "the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year" Similar qualifypass one's examspassbe certifiedbe licensedtake an academic degreereceive/get one's degreebecome a graduatecomplete one's studies
   • ▪ move up to (a more advanced level or position): "he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car" Similar progressadvancemove upgo upproceeddevelopgain promotionbe promotedOpposite regressbe demoted
   • 2. arrange in a series or according to a scale: "the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite" Similar arrange in a seriesarrange in orderordergroupclassifyclasscategorizerankgraderange
   • ▪ mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate gradations: "the stem was graduated with marks for each hour" Similar calibratemark offmeasure off/outdivide into degreesgrade
   • 3. change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step: "the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- ‘graduated’, from graduare ‘take a degree’, from Latin gradus ‘degree, step’.

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