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grad·u·ate
(grăj′o͞o-āt′)v. grad·u·at·ed, grad·u·at·ing, grad·u·ates
v.intr.
1. To be granted an academic degree or diploma: Most of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.
2.
a. To change gradually or by degrees: "The most weighty of all the arguments against treating the races of man as distinct species, is that they graduate into each other" (Charles Darwin).
b. To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity: After a month of diving instruction, they all graduated to back flips.
v.tr.
1.
a. To grant an academic degree or diploma to: The school has graduated many gifted chemists.
b. Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from: How many chemists graduated the Institute last year?
2. To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades: graduate an income tax.
3. To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement: graduate a thermometer.
n. (-ĭt)
1. One who has received an academic degree or diploma.
2. A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.
adj. (-ĭt)
1. Possessing an academic degree or diploma.
2. Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree: graduate courses.
[Middle English graduaten, to confer a degree, from Medieval Latin graduārī, graduāt-, to take a degree, from Latin gradus, step; see grade.]
grad′u·a′tor n.
Usage Note: Traditionally, the verb graduate denotes the action of conferring an academic degree or diploma, and this sense has often been conveyed in the passive voice, as in They were graduated from Yale in 2010. This usage still exists, though it is somewhat old-fashioned and may be slipping away. In our 1988 survey, 78 percent of the Usage Panel accepted this sentence, but almost half the Panel found it unacceptable in our 2006 survey. Nonetheless, this older use of the verb is both acceptable and widespread when the verb is expressed in the active voice and the institution is the subject: The university graduated more computer science majors in 2010 than in the entire previous decade. Another transitive use, in which the student is the subject and the institution is the object, as in She graduated Yale in 2010, does not find favor with the Panel. Some 77 percent objected to this usage in 1988 and again in 2006. The intransitive, and most frequent, use of the verb, as in They graduated from Yale in 2010, was ruled acceptable by 97 percent of the Panel in 2006.
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graduate
n
1. (Education)
a. a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college
b. (as modifier): a graduate profession.
2. (Education) US and Canadian a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
3. (Chemistry) US a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity
vb
4. (Education) to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
5. (Education) (tr) chiefly US and Canadian to confer a degree, diploma, etc, upon
6. (tr) to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
7. (tr) to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
8. (often foll by: to) to change by degrees (from something to something else)
[C15: from Medieval Latin graduārī to take a degree, from Latin gradus a step]
ˈgraduˌator n
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grad•u•ate
(n., adj. ˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt; v. -ˌeɪt)n., adj., v. -at•ed, -at•ing. n.
1. a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study at a university, college, or school.
2. a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.
3. a cylindrical or tapering graduated container, used for measuring.
adj. 4. of, pertaining to, or involved in academic study beyond the bachelor's degree: a graduate student.
5. having an academic degree or diploma.
v.i. 6. to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study: to graduate from college.
7. to pass by degrees; change gradually.
v.t. 8. to confer a degree upon or grant a diploma to.
9. to receive a degree or diploma from: to graduate college.
10. to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.
11. to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.
[1375–1425; < Medieval Latin graduārī to grade, graduate, derivative of Latin gradus grade]
grad′u•a`tor, n.
usage: graduate followed by from is the most common construction today: to graduate from Yale. The passive form, once considered to be the only correct pattern, occurs infrequently today: to be graduated from Yale. Although condemned by some as nonstandard, the use of graduate as a transitive verb meaning “to receive a degree or diploma from” is increasing in both speech and writing: to graduate high school.
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graduate
A graduate is someone who has successfully completed a first degree at a university or college.
In America, a high school graduate is someone who has completed all of the requirements at a high school.
See high school
Someone who already has a first degree and who is studying for a higher degree can be called a graduate student, a postgraduate student, or a postgraduate. In America, graduate student is the usual term.
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graduate
Past participle: graduated
Gerund: graduating
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Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
graduate
To be awarded an academic degree or diploma by a school, college, or university. A graduate is a person who has been awarded such a degree or diploma.
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| Noun | 1. |  graduate - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)Ivy Leaguer - a student or graduate at an Ivy League school old boy - a former male pupil of a school bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines |
| 2. | graduate - a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts graduated cylinder - a cylindrical graduate measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system - instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something | |
| Verb | 1. | graduate - receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990" |
| 2. | graduate - confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year" | |
| 3. | graduate - make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" | |
| Adj. | 1. | graduate - of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" high - greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself" |
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graduate
verb
2. progress, advance, proceed, move on or up From commercials she quickly graduated to television shows.
3. mark off, grade, proportion, regulate, gauge, calibrate, measure out The volume control knob is graduated from 1 to 11.
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Translations
خَرِّيجخِرّيج جامعه أو كُلِيَّه، مُتَخَرِّجيَتَخَرَّجيُقَسِّم إلى دَرجات
absolventpromovatrozdělitabsolvovatodstupňovat
kandidatakademikerbestå universitetseksameninddele
tutkinnon suorittanutylioppilas
diplomirani student
diplomásdiplomát szerezegyetemet v. fõiskolát végzettfokbeosztással ellát
stigmerkja, kvarîaútskrifaîur nemandiútskrifast
大学の卒業生
대학 졸업생
absolventasbaigtidiplomų įteikimasgauti diplomąpadala
absolventsbeigtgraduēt, sadalīt iedaļāssaņemt diplomu/zinātnisku grāduzinātniskā grāda ieguvējs
diplomantdiplomiratimaturantmaturirati
akademiker
ผู้จบปริญญา
derecelere ayırmakmezun olmakmezunuüniversite mezunu
sinh viên đã tốt nghiệp
graduate
[ˈgrædjʊɪt]A. N
1. (Univ) → licenciado/a m/f, graduado/a m/f, egresado/a m/f (LAm)
2. (US) (Scol) → bachiller mf
C. [ˈgrædjʊeɪt] VI
1. (Univ) → graduarse or licenciarse (from en) → recibirse (LAm) (as de)
3. (= progress) to graduate from sth to sth → pasar de algo a algo
D. [ˈgrædjʊɪt] CPD graduate course N → curso m para graduados
graduate school N (US) → departamento m de graduados
graduate student N (US) → estudiante mf de posgrado COLLEGE
graduate school N (US) → departamento m de graduados
graduate student N (US) → estudiante mf de posgrado COLLEGE
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
graduate
[ˈgrædʒuət] n
[university] → diplômé(e) m/f (d'université), licencié(e) m/f
a graduate of Manchester University → un(e) diplômé(e) de l'université de Manchester
a recent graduate → un(e) nouveau diplômé(nouvelle)(e)
a philosophy graduate, a graduate in philosophy (British) → un(e) licencié(e) en philosophie
a graduate of Manchester University → un(e) diplômé(e) de l'université de Manchester
a recent graduate → un(e) nouveau diplômé(nouvelle)(e)
a philosophy graduate, a graduate in philosophy (British) → un(e) licencié(e) en philosophie
(US) [high school] → bachelier/ière m/f
[ˈgrædʒueɪt] vi
[university student] → obtenir un diplôme d'université (or une licence)
He graduated in 1996 → Il a obtenu son diplôme en 1996.
to graduate from → être diplômé(e) de
He graduated in 1996 → Il a obtenu son diplôme en 1996.
to graduate from → être diplômé(e) de
(US) [high school student] → obtenir son baccalauréat
to graduate from high school → obtenir son baccalauréat
to graduate from high school → obtenir son baccalauréat
(= move on to) to graduate to sth [+ new activity] → passer à qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
graduate
in cpds (Brit) → für Akademiker; unemployment → unter den Akademikern;graduate course
n Kurs für Studenten mit abgeschlossenem Studium
graduate
:graduate school
n (US) Hochschulabteilung für Studenten mit abgeschlossenem Studium
graduate student
n (US) Student(in) mit abgeschlossenem Studium, → Jungakademiker(in) m(f)
graduate
1n (Brit Univ) → (Hochschul)absolvent(in) m(f); (= person with degree) → Akademiker(in) m(f); (US Sch) → Schulabgänger(in) m(f); high-school graduate (US) → ˜ Abiturient(in) m(f)
graduate
2vt
(= mark) → einteilen, graduieren (form)
(US: Sch, Univ) → als Absolventen haben
vi
(Univ) → graduieren; (US Sch) → die Abschlussprüfung bestehen (→ from an +dat); to graduate in English → einen Hochschulabschluss in Englisch machen; she graduated to television from radio → sie arbeitete sich vom Radio zum Fernsehen hoch; to graduate from the school of hard knocks (fig) → eine harte Lehre durchmachen
(= change by degrees) → allmählich übergehen
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graduate
[n ˈgrædjʊɪt; vb ˈgrædjʊˌeɪt]1. n (Univ) → laureato/a (Am) (Scol) → diplomato/a, licenziato/a
he's a French graduate or a graduate in French → è laureato or ha la laurea in francese
he's a French graduate or a graduate in French → è laureato or ha la laurea in francese
2. vt (thermometer) → graduare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
graduate
(ˈgradjueit) verb1. to receive a degree, diploma etc. He graduated in German and French.
2. to mark out with regular divisions. A thermometer is graduated in degrees.
(-ət) noun a person who has been awarded a degree or diploma. a graduate in French.
ˌgraduˈation noun1. the act or ceremony of graduating from a college, university etc. The graduation will be held in the large hall; (also adjective) a graduation ceremony.
2. a marked division. the graduations on a thermometer.
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graduate
→ خَرِّيج absolvent kandidat Hochschulabsolvent πτυχιούχος titulado tutkinnon suorittanut diplômé diplomirani student laureato 大学の卒業生 대학 졸업생 afgestudeerde akademiker absolwent formando, licenciado выпускник akademiker ผู้จบปริญญา üniversite mezunu sinh viên đã tốt nghiệp 毕业生Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009