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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grad
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grad school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
▪ Except on Wall Street, the Board of Trade, some of them are just high school grads, too.
▪ But for now, at least, the high school grads can still play with them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also starring are Sarah Knowlton as Hal, a Yale grad suffering the indignities of life as a secretary.
▪ Boone -- like Ted Williams, a Hoover High grad -- is less likely to make such a mistake, however.
▪ Computer science grads are the hottest tickets this year.
▪ Except on Wall Street, the Board of Trade, some of them are just high school grads, too.
▪ Female college grads today make more than twice as much as high school graduates.
▪ He has thrived professionally and persuaded a Princeton grad to marry him.
▪ More often than not, college grads tend to outgrow their stay-at-home counterparts.
▪ Post grad degrees and firsts seemed the order of the day.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
grad

del \del\ n. (Math.) a differential operator which, operating on a function of several variables, gives the sum of the partial derivatives of the function with respect to the three orthogonal spatial coordinates; -- also called the gradient or grad. It is represented by an inverted Greek capital delta ([nabla]), and is thus because of its shape also called nabla, meaning harp in Hebrew.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grad

abbreviation of graduate (n.), attested from 1871.

Wiktionary
grad

abbr. (label en geometry trigonometry) (abbreviation of gradian English) n. 1 Short form of '''graduate'''. 2 Short form of '''graduation'''.

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WordNet
grad

  1. n. one-hundredth of a right angle [syn: grade]

  2. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate]

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Wikipedia
Grąd

Grąd may refer to:

  • Grąd, Podlaskie Voivodeship
  • Grąd, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Grad (EP)

Grad (trans. The City) is an EP released by Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack in 2003.

Grad (Brus)

Grad is a village in the municipality of Brus, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 97 people.

Grad (toponymy)

Grad (Cyrillic: Град) is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". Initially present in all related languages as Gord (archaeology), it can still be found as "grad", or as Horod or Gorod (toponymy) in many placenames today.

These places have grad as part of their name:

  • Asenovgrad (" Asen's town")
  • Beograd ("white town"), capital of Serbia, known in English as Belgrade. The largest city with grad in its name.
  • Biograd ("white town")
  • Blagoevgrad (" Blagoev's town")
  • Danilovgrad (" Danilo's town")
  • Dimitrovgrad (" Dimitrov's town")
  • Donji Grad ("lower town")
  • Dravograd (" Drava town")
  • Filmski Grad (" film town")
  • Gornji Grad ("upper town")
  • Grad, Slovenia
  • Gradac ("small town")
  • Gradec ("small town/castle")
  • Gradišče ("town-place/castle-place")
  • Gradsko ("of the town")
  • Ivaylovgrad (" Ivaylo's town")
  • Kaliningrad (" Kalinin's town")
  • Kirovgrad (" Kirov's town")
  • Leningrad (" Lenin's town")
  • Mrkonjić Grad (" Mrkonjić's town")
  • Novi Grad ("new town")
  • Novigrad ("new town")
  • Petrograd (" Peter's town")
  • Podgrad ("below the town/castle")
  • Pogradec ("below the small town")
  • Razgrad (" Hors' town")
  • Stalingrad (" Stalin's town")
  • Stari Grad ("old town")
  • Topolovgrad (" poplar town")
  • Veliko Gradište ("large town-place")
  • Visegrad ("upper town")
  • Volgograd (" Volga town")
  • Zlatograd (" gold town")
Grad (surname)

Grad is the surname of the following people

  • Adam Grad (1969–2015), Polish association football player
  • Aleksander Grad (born 1962), Polish politician
  • Ilya Grad (born 1987), Israeli Muay Thai boxing champion
  • Zoltan Grad (1904–2003), Hungarian-American editor

Usage examples of "grad".

John Doar was a lanky thirty-nine-year-old Republican and Princeton grad from a small town in Wisconsin who joined the Civil Rights Division at the tail end of the Eisenhower administration and was held over by Kennedy, perhaps because he was the only Eisenhower appointee who seemed to have a pulse.

She pegged him at mid- to late twenties, probably a grad student, a shaky step up from geekdom, earning his tuition by manning the stick and chatting up the patrons.

Math for Humanities Majors, and Reed Muscadine, the theater-arts grad student, was participating in something called Performance Seminar 201B a half-mile away in MacManus Hall on the north end of the campus.

Roz had been wearing her clerical collar and her guise as a late-blooming grad student, and only some months later did Kate discover that Roz and Lee had, as they say, history.

To our left is Microform Services, the dark grotto where professors and grad students huddle in clusters of microfilm machines, squinting at panels of light.

Most tenured researchers like him treat their grad students and post-docs as so much unpaid labor, to be rewarded with co-author status on a paper along with the other twenty members of the team.

Every move from Odenville to undergrad at Spelman to grad school at UCLA to PhD from Pepperdine University in Malibu, everything that she has accomplished or plans to accomplish is on poster-sized, light-green engineering grid paper, laminated and framed, hung at eye level on the west wall in her office, facing due east.

Matthew Jarpe has had such diverse jobs as biology undergrad student, biochemistry grad student, biochemistry post-doc, and biochemist.

Or how many grads and undergrads and booksellers and visitors and whatever trail through my office?

The assistant professors lured over with overtures of promised sex, and grad students wanting in on the train pulling wonderment of the barbecuers from hell.

I graduated from Princeton, seventy percent of all math grads from major universities applied for jobs at RAND.

Tonight was the normal night for the regular potluck for their grad students.

Eastern boy, a Harvard grad become lawyer become playboy, gambler, schmoozer of pretty females, his favorite for several years being Jessica Huston.

The Federation flag snapped in the wind, but with it flew the flag of Strpski Grad Republika, proudly proclaiming its status as a semiautonomous entity and its connection to Serbia in the three horizontal stripes of red, blue and white.

Zubac was a highly visible defense minister, and Strpski Grad was a semiautonomous entity in a new nation.