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Entry 10 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Graduate

/grăjʹo͞o-ĭt/ · Grad·u·ate · IPA /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuɪt/
01 v. t. 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.
imp. & p. p. Graduated; p. pr. & vb. n. Graduating
  1. 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. 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. 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.” — Browne.
  4. 4.
    To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.(Chem.)
Phrases & compounds
Graduating engine — a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.
02 v. i. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
  1. 1.
    To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
  2. 2.
    To taper, as the tail of certain birds.(Zool.)
  3. 3.
    To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
    “He graduated at Oxford.” — Latham.
    “He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated.” — Macaulay.
03 n. One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institutio…
  1. 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. 2.
    A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated. See: Graduated
04 a. Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
  1. 1.
    Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
    “Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages.” — Tatham.