graduate

graduate is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, noun & verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. noun. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
5. intransitive verb. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
6. intransitive verb. To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
7. intransitive verb. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
8. 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. noun. A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
10. noun & verb. Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
11. noun. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
12. noun. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

    Synonyms: alum, alumna, alumnus, grad

13. verb. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

    "calibrate an instrument"

    "graduate a cylinder"

    Synonyms: calibrate

14. verb. confer an academic degree upon

    "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"

15. verb. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies

    "She graduated in 1990"

16. adjective. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

    "graduate courses"

    Synonyms: postgraduate

Synonyms

alum, alumna, alumnus, grad, calibrate, postgraduate

Common word forms

graduated, graduates, graduating

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