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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diploma
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
study for an exam/diploma etc
▪ I’ve only got three weeks left to study for my exams.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ Opportunities are also available for those who wish to pursue higher diplomas and degrees in a full-time or part-time capacity.
▪ Students who complete the program receive a skills certificate along with their high school diploma.
▪ She has a high school diploma, a service-sector job and her own car.
▪ Clarify what they expect young people to know and be able to do to earn a high school diploma.
▪ But Mr Florio, a former boxer who earned his high school diploma in the navy, was undaunted by the opposition.
▪ Districts also would continue to issue standard high school diplomas.
▪ These units are amassed toward graduation, and, in most cases, become the only ticket to a high school diploma.
▪ White men with high school diplomas earn more than Hispanic women with college degrees.
■ NOUN
college
▪ More telling are the precipitous cost increases at state universities, which account for four out of every five college diplomas.
▪ Furthermore, even the cherished college diploma no longer guarantees success.
course
▪ This emphasis is true also of most of their graduate diploma courses.
▪ The two-year diploma course student will, of course, join the finals group earlier than the three-year course student.
▪ For an eight-term diploma course the total cost will be around £11-12000.
▪ Consequently, a new diploma course had to be set up, new teacher trainers prepared and new books written.
▪ In addition to the degree and diploma courses described below, there is a wide range of professional and postgraduate courses.
▪ For degree or diploma courses at universities, student loan financing is available, see next section.
▪ I had two more children and taught higher national diploma courses in the evenings at the local technical college.
▪ The grant will establish an endowed faculty position for the department's three-year diploma course.
school
▪ She has a high school diploma, a service-sector job and her own car.
▪ Students who complete the program receive a skills certificate along with their high school diploma.
▪ But Mr Florio, a former boxer who earned his high school diploma in the navy, was undaunted by the opposition.
▪ Clarify what they expect young people to know and be able to do to earn a high school diploma.
▪ Districts also would continue to issue standard high school diplomas.
▪ These units are amassed toward graduation, and, in most cases, become the only ticket to a high school diploma.
▪ White men with high school diplomas earn more than Hispanic women with college degrees.
■ VERB
award
▪ By the 1830s, some 50 students yearly were awarded a diploma.
▪ Polytechnics will be able to call themselves universities and to award degrees and diplomas.
▪ In 1871 the Lowe-Vansittart propeller was awarded a first-class diploma at the Kensington exhibition, followed by similar awards worldwide.
get
▪ Mr Rodriguez's plan is to get a high-school diploma, then win a pilot's licence.
▪ She did go on to get her high-school equivalency diploma.
take
▪ I don't think he had many friends here, certainly none that would have lasted after he took his diploma.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a high school diploma
▪ Anyone with a high school diploma can enroll in the course.
▪ Everyone was given a diploma at the end of the course.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Certificates, diplomas and records of achievement will normally be issued within three months of receiving signed marks sheets.
▪ Districts also would continue to issue standard high school diplomas.
▪ It is worth considering what the real benefits of studying at university degree or diploma level might be.
▪ Moments later as the Monsignor began to pass out the diplomas, flashbulbs popped and a few home movie cameras whirred.
▪ She did go on to get her high-school equivalency diploma.
▪ That room, furthermore, contained the violin, diplomas and medals which belonged to brother Carl.
▪ These include classes on parenting, self-esteem, conflict resolution and prep courses for the general education diploma exam.
▪ This team will include specialists in each of the areas of study of the diploma programme.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diploma

Diploma \Di*plo"ma\, n.; pl. Diplomas. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to double, fr. diplo`os twofold. See Double.] A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diploma

1640s, "state paper, official document," from Latin diploma, from Greek diploma "license, chart," originally "paper folded double," from diploun "to double, fold over," from diploos "double" (see diploid) + -oma. Specific academic sense is 1680s in English.

Wiktionary
diploma

n. A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.

WordNet
diploma

n. a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study [syn: sheepskin]

Wikipedia
Diploma

A diploma (from Greek δίπλωµα díplōma, meaning "folded paper") is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a college or university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to a level of academic award. The words diplomat and diplomacy have the same origin, from the official "folded papers" of accreditation delivered by ambassadors or delegates.

In some countries, such as the UK and Australia, such a document can be called a testimonium or testamur, Latin for "we testify" or "certify" (testari), and so called from the word with which the certificate begins. Alternatively, the document is simply referred to as a degree certificate in these jurisdictions. In Ireland, it is generally called a parchment. The certificate that a Nobel laureate receives is also called a diploma.

The term diploma is also used in some historical contexts, to refer to documents signed by a King affirming a grant or tenure of specified land and its conditions (see Anglo-Saxon Charters and Diplomatics).

Diploma (album)

Diploma is the third album and his very 1st album by Sony BMG of Pinoy rapper, Gloc-9. It has 14 tracks and released under Sony BMG & Musiko Records in 2007.

Diploma (Japan)

Diploma in Japanese has 2 meanings. They can be translated into "Senmonshi"(Japanese:専門士), the Japanese original academic degree, and the certificate of graduation.

Usage examples of "diploma".

Her eyes swung compulsively to her diploma already framed and hanging above the chest of drawers.

She handed him a diploma from Oxford that was dated more than a century earlier.

He wished he could understand the fierce connection he felt to it, wished he could remember why he had saved that aging diploma that belonged to his ancestor.

I asked him what he was planning to do without a diploma and he said he thought he might do some social work in the slums.

I said I guessed that social work like everything else needed training and preparation and that after he got his diploma I and his mother would be happy to send him on to some college where he could get training as a social worker.

So they played through and we went on talking about his diploma and the rules of the game.

And, in order to understand every thing from the beginning, you must look through microscopes at the movements of amoebae, and cells in worms, or, with still greater composure, believe in every thing that men with a diploma of infallibility shall say to you about them.

I tried to buy a diploma for an invalid friend at home who had never traveled, and whose desire all his life has been to ascend Mont Blanc, but the Guide-in-Chief rather insolently refused to sell me one.

I TOLD him my friend was sick and could not come himself, but he said he did not care a VERDAMMTES PFENNIG, he wanted his diploma for himself--did I suppose he was going to risk his neck for that thing and then give it to a sick stranger?

If I thought of it, probably my mind ran on a decent practice somewhere after I had got my diploma, and a little home with my Princess beside me, but I think we were more concerned with present happiness than future possibilities.

She and I paired in all the parties and rags that our little clique organized, and all went well until my last term was half-way through, when I realized that, still a year and a half short of getting the diploma and turning out as a fully-fledged dental surgeon, I had to give it all up and trust to a vague and most unpromising future to bring me and my Princess together again.

Commencement left me with a diploma, a new dress-suit, an out-of-date medical library, a box of surgical instruments of the same date as the books, and an incipient case of typhoid fever.

Partly because he had this thing for Britney Yardley, and she had a high school diploma plus a VoTech course.

And what kind of man kept certificates and diplomas of a relative long-dead?

Lucas paused at the far wall and examined the array of framed diplomas and certificates that hung there.