Arranged in successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Having received a degree; having been graduated: as, a graduate student.
noun.
One who has been admitted to a degree in a college or university, or by some professional incorporated society, after examination.
noun.
A graduated glass vessel used for measuring liquids, as by chemists, apothecaries, etc.
To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or divisions; divide into small regular distances: as, to graduate a thermometer, a scale, etc.
To arrange or place in a series of grades or gradations; establish gradation in: as, to graduate punishment.
To confer a degree upon at the close of a course of study, as a student in a college or university; certify by diploma, after examination, the attainment of a certain grade of learning by: as, he was graduated A. B., and afterward A. M.
To prepare gradually; temper or modify by degrees.
To raise to a higher degree, as of fineness, consistency, etc.: as, to graduate brine by evaporation.
To pass by degrees; change or pass gradually.
To receive a degree from a college or university, after examination in a course of study; be graduated.