GRADUATE

vi to taper, as the tail of certain birds.

2. graduate ·noun & ·v arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

3. graduate ·noun to bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

4. graduate ·vi to take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

5. graduate ·noun a graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. ·see under graduated.

6. graduate ·vi to pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

7. graduate ·noun 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.

8. graduate ·noun 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.

9. graduate ·noun 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.

10. graduate ·noun 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.