graduate
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: graduates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more graduate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most graduate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: graduates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: graduating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: graduated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: graduated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
pos: noun
examples: If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
gloss: A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
pos: noun
gloss: graduated, arranged by degrees
pos: adj
gloss: holding an academic degree
pos: adj
gloss: relating to an academic degree
pos: adj
gloss: To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: The man graduated in 1967.
Trisha graduated from college.
After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a law degree in Canada, then worked as an environmental lawyer in Israel before settling on the south side of Youngstown.
gloss: To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
pos: verb
tags: proscribed
transitive
examples: Trisha graduated college.
gloss: To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Indiana University graduated the student.
The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
gloss: To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To change gradually.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.
Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death.
sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
gloss: To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
pos: verb
examples: to graduate the heat of an oven
Dyers, who advance and graduate their colours with salts.
gloss: To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
pos: verb
gloss: To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To approve (a feature) for general release.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.
gloss: Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
pos: verb
tags: Japanese
intransitive
examples: Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.
Antonyms: student
drop-out
Related words: grade
graduation
Derived words: Christmas graduate
graduate engineer
graduateness
graduate nurse
graduate school
graduateship
graduate student
graduate student descent
graduate tax
graduate thesis
graduator
graduette
nongraduate
post-graduate
pregraduate
pre-graduate
subgraduate
disgraduate
nongraduating
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