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What's The Definition Of Graduate?

\Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graduated}p. pr. & vb. n. {Graduating}.] [Cf. F. graduer. See {Graduate}, n., {Grade}.] 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. 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. 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. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. {Graduating engine}, a dividing engine. See {Dividing} engine, under {Dividing}.
\Grad"u*ate\, v. i. 1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz. 2. (Zo["o]l.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds. 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.
\Grad"u*ate\, n. [LL. graduatus, p. p. of graduare to admit to a degree, fr. L. gradus grade. See {Grade}, n.] 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. A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under {Graduated}.
\Grad"u*ate\, a. [See {Graduate}, n. & v.] Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated. Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. --Tatham.