Definitions for the word "graduate" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n. & v.
Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
Person holding an academic degree. v. (-ting) 1 obtain an academic degree. 2 (foll. By to) move up to (a higher grade of activity etc.). 3 mark out in degrees or parts. 4 arrange in gradations; apportion (e.g. Tax) according to a scale. graduation n. [medieval latin graduor take a degree: related to *grade]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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