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/ˈɡɹædʒəˌweɪt, ˈɡɹædʒəwət, ˈɡɹædʒuˌeɪt, ˈɡɹædʒuwət/
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VERB
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confer an academic degree upon
This school graduates 2,000 students each year -
make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
calibrate an instrument
graduate a cylinder -
receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
She graduated in 1990
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
graduate courses
NOUN
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
How To Use graduate In A Sentence
- About 40% of all students entering as freshmen graduate within 4 years.
- The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
- Graduate students specialize in a particular field of study.
- Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
- she graduated early
- Success in that final exam ensures that their parents' dream, which by now should also be their own, of a cap and gown clad university graduate is within grasp.
- For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
- The term proteome “proteins that are encoded and expressed by a genome” was coined in 1994 by Marc Wilkins, then a graduate student at Macquarrie University in Sydney, Australia. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- Now he needs only two credit hours to graduate.
- The trick is that Juan graduated from a hard school and nothing fazes him.