graduate
Other forms: graduated; graduates; graduating
To graduate means to successfully complete your schooling, to become "a graduate." When you graduate from high school, you become a high school graduate and congratulations are in order.
A graduate is someone who has received a degree from a school. As a verb graduate refers to the act of receiving this degree “I plan to graduate from college in the spring,” or the act of giving a degree “I want to graduate all of my students.” In a scientific sense, graduate can mean to calibrate for fine adjustments. To make a thermometer, you have to graduate it by degrees so it displays a range of temperatures.
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receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
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confer an academic degree upon
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make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
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a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
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Ivy Leaguer
a student or graduate at an Ivy League school
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old boy
a former male pupil of a school
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bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
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Ivy Leaguer
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of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
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a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
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graduated cylinder
a cylindrical graduate
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measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system
instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something
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graduated cylinder
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