graduate
/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒueɪt/ verb A2- To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. · The man graduated in 1967.· Trisha graduated from college.
- To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution). · Trisha graduated college.
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree · Indiana University graduated the student.· The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
- 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.
- To change gradually. · sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of. · to graduate the heat of an oven
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
He/she/it graduates · Past graduated · Past participle graduated · -ing form graduating
Verb forms
- Base form
- graduate
- He/she/it
- graduates
- Past
- graduated
- Past participle
- graduated
- -ing form
- graduating
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But now in one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar board, before the echo of Josie’s words had died away.
There had been much doubt whether one would be allotted to Queen’s, but the matter was settled at last, and at the end of the year the graduate who made the highest mark in English and English Literature would win the scholarship--two hundred and fifty dollars a year for four years at Redmond College.
The barcode was invented by two graduate students, Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver, in the late 1940s.
He told her that he graduated from Maplewood last year.
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