Graduate

·vi To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

II. Graduate ·noun & ·v Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

III. Graduate ·noun To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

IV. Graduate ·vi To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

V. Graduate ·noun A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. ·see under Graduated.

VI. Graduate ·vi To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

VII. Graduate ·noun 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.

VIII. Graduate ·noun 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.

IX. Graduate ·noun 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.

X. Graduate ·noun 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.