graduate
adjective
1. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
- graduate courses
Similar word(s): high, postgraduate
noun
1. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
Similar word(s): alum, alumna, alumnus, grad
Definition categories: person, bookman, scholar, student
2. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with graduate as a noun:
- If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
verb
1. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
- She graduated in 1990
Definition categories: possession, have, receive
2. confer an academic degree upon
- This school graduates 2,000 students each year
Definition categories: possession, bestow, confer
3. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
- graduate a cylinder
Similar word(s): calibrate
Definition categories: change, adjust, correct, set
Sentences with graduate as a verb:
- The man graduated in 1967.
- Trisha graduated from college.
- Trisha graduated college.
- Indiana University graduated the student.
- The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
- sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
- to graduate the heat of an oven