- a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.
- a graduated cylinder, used for measuring.
- of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student.
- having an academic degree or diploma: a graduate engineer.
- to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from): She graduated from college in 1985.
- to pass by degrees; change gradually.
- to confer a degree upon, or to grant a diploma to, at the close of a course of study, as in a university, college, or school: Cornell graduated eighty students with honors.
- to receive a degree or diploma from: She graduated college in 1950.
- to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.
- to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.
- a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college
- (as modifier)
- a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
- a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity
- to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
- to confer a degree, diploma, etc upon
- to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
- to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
- to change by degrees (from something to something else)
