Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- 5intransitive verb
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
- 6intransitive verb
To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- 7intransitive verb
To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
- 10noun & verb
Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
- 11noun
a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
- 12noun
a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- 13verb
make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
"calibrate an instrument"
"graduate a cylinder"
Synonyms
- 14verb
confer an academic degree upon
"This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
- 15verb
receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
"She graduated in 1990"
- 16adjective
of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
"graduate courses"
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