Graduate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Graduated; p. pr. & vb. n. Graduating

1. 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. 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. 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.

   Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.

4. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. (Chem.)

1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
2. To taper, as the tail of certain birds. (Zool.)
3. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

   He graduated at Oxford.

   He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated.

1. 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.
2. A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

1. Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

   Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages.