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graduated

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Word definitions for graduated in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduated p. pr. & vb. n. Graduating .] [Cf. F. graduer. See Graduate , n., Grade .] To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: proportional ] marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer" [syn: calibrated ] decreasing as the amount taxed increases slowly and smoothly [syn: gradational , gradatory ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN pension ▪ The original Conservative proposal had been to unload all secondary or graduated pensions on to the private sector. ▪ You can only get a graduated pension based on your own personal contributions. ▪ In ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) In steps. 2 Having a university degree; having completed training. 3 Marked with graduations. 4 Arranged by grade, level, degree. 5 (context taxation English) Increasing in rate with the taxable base. 6 (context ornithology ...

Usage examples of graduated.

Breeders who had recently left their herds, not to mention all those who had graduated to adulthood before them.

Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.

Hampstead, what the disaffection of a clergy would amount to, gaping after this graduated bounty of the Crown, and whether Ignatius Loyala himself, if he were a living blockhead instead of a dead saint, could withstand the temptation of bouncing from 100 pounds a year at Sligo, to 300 pounds in Tipperary?

Yeppha putting designs in subtly graduated colors on the screen and Cha Thrat telling it what she saw or did not see.

It is cooled, transferred to a graduated flask, and diluted with water to 200 c.

The residue is taken up with hydrochloric acid, cooled, transferred to a graduated flask, and diluted to the mark.

A retroactive statute imposing a graduated tax at rates different from those in the general income tax law, on dividends received in a prior year which were deductible from gross income under the law in effect when they were received, is not obnoxious to the equal protection clause.

Born on Christmas Day, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, Gayler graduated from the Naval Academy and spent the better part of his career as a fighter pilot.

Lenny had graduated from high school and had gone directly into the family business, Stankovik and Sons, Plumbing and Heating.

Started off as helper to Loz and the rest of the cooks, then graduated to rear gunner.

Song of Change had been sung, the newly graduated Breeders had been congratulated by the parents, children, Protectors, and Nurturers, and the herd had split back up into individual family groups for perhaps their last private time together before the Breeders struck off on their own.

He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War.

The Bishop was to have been present to give a prayer--Joan had graduated at De Pauw when he was President there--but old St.

He had chosen a pair of dolls, one Rac, one Remaker, and a wooden Worldtree with a set of brightly painted graduated rings.

Nezzie gave Ayla a warm hug, and then a necklace of matched and graduated spiral shells, each one separated by carefully sawed small sections of the hard hollow leg bones of arctic fox and, suspended as a pendant in front, a large canine tooth of a cave lion.