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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To be granted an academic degree or diploma: Two thirds of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.
2. v. To change gradually or by degrees.
3. v. To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity: After a summer of diving instruction, they had all graduated to back flips.
4. v. To grant an academic degree or diploma to: The teachers hope to graduate her this spring.
5. v. Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from.
6. v. To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades.
7. v. To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement.
8. n. One who has received an academic degree or diploma.
9. n. A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.
10. adj. Possessing an academic degree or diploma.
11. adj. Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree: graduate courses.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or divisions; divide into small regular distances: as, to graduate a thermometer, a scale, etc.
2. To arrange or place in a series of grades or gradations; establish gradation in: as, to graduate punishment.
3. 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.
4. To prepare gradually; temper or modify by degrees.
5. To raise to a higher degree, as of fineness, consistency, etc.: as, to graduate brine by evaporation.
6. To pass by degrees; change or pass gradually.
7. To receive a degree from a college or university, after examination in a course of study; be graduated.
8. Arranged in successive steps or degrees; graduated.
9. Having received a degree; having been graduated: as, a graduate student.
10. n. One who has been admitted to a degree in a college or university, or by some professional incorporated society, after examination.
11. n. A graduated glass vessel used for measuring liquids, as by chemists, apothecaries, etc.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution
2. n. US A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school
3. n. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring
4. adj. graduated, arranged by degrees
5. adj. holding an academic degree
6. adj. relating to an academic degree
7. v. intransitive, ergative To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. See note on “from” usage.
8. v. transitive To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
9. v. transitive To mark a scale on (something) so that it can be used for measuring
10. v. intransitive To change gradually

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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. v. 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.
3. v. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
4. v. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
5. v. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off
6. v. (Zoöl.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
7. v. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
8. n. 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.
9. n. A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
10. adj. Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
2. v. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
3. n. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
4. n. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
5. v. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
6. v. confer an academic degree upon