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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
graduate
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a university graduate (=someone who has completed a university course)
▪ She is a university graduate who speaks three languages.
graduate from university (=leave after getting a degree)
▪ She graduated from Liverpool University in 2006.
graduate school
graduate/master’s/doctoral thesis
▪ He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ Madge Niven - our oldest graduate at 85 years.
▪ My first executive assistant was Hu Tsang, a thirty-three year-#old graduate of the Kennedy School.
recent
▪ We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.
▪ A recent high-school graduate sat at the reception desk.
young
▪ I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor.
▪ At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
▪ Photo: Pam Meecham, 1999 when she was a young graduate at Yale University.
▪ He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.
▪ After all, he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace.
■ NOUN
college
▪ This may not be the high-minded stuff that nudged this soft-spoken Barnard College graduate toward a career in publishing.
▪ At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
course
▪ It is hardly suited as a textbook for a graduate course in atomic theory.
▪ The girl who spoke to her was doing a post graduate course in nursing.
degree
▪ Other developments are probable, including further graduate degrees.
▪ Get a graduate degree at a civilian university.
▪ Nursing service administrators are usually chosen from among supervisory registered nurses with administrative abilities and a graduate degree in nursing administration.
engineer
▪ For graduate engineers with good building experience, the sky's the limit.
post
▪ The girl who spoke to her was doing a post graduate course in nursing.
▪ The £200 prize will go to the best presentation by a post graduate student.
program
▪ Coffman got into the Stanford graduate program in 1971, seeking a doctorate in astronautics.
school
▪ He's a newly minted law school graduate from Long Island.
student
▪ It is also responsible for administering the procedures for the admission, supervision and examination of all graduate students.
▪ I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.
▪ I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.
▪ As a graduate student at the London School of Economics I was taught that stock markets were efficient.
▪ And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.
▪ Most of my fellow graduate students could read another language.
▪ Such interdisciplinary co-operation in teaching and supervision is particularly valuable, as indeed is the international composition of the graduate student body.
▪ It remains the Second Coming in the eyes of critics, graduate students and indie watchers.
study
▪ And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies.
▪ I could take a leave of absence from graduate study for one year and still have my fellowship held for me.
▪ Notable among these are Volunteers contemplating careers in the field of economic development, after first pursuing graduate study in economics.
▪ In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs.
▪ Flores also dreams of graduate study.
▪ She was also doing excellent work in her graduate studies.
▪ But it was privately, not through the government, and not for advanced field training, but for graduate study.
▪ As young scholars progress through graduate study, they acquire more than knowledge and method: Strong allegiances are formed.
trainee
▪ As a matter of fact, I started on this paper as a graduate trainee myself.
▪ The first one was written by a university senior applying for a graduate trainee position with a bank.
▪ Geographers are well represented in industry, commerce, government and the professions, and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees.
university
▪ Einhorn, a Drexel University graduate, has been with Rohm and Haas since 1987.
▪ Not surprisingly, then, the prime example of this new R &038; B sensibility was a black university graduate.
work
▪ There should be more graduate work generally, and an increase in the number of undergraduate courses covering wider fields of study.
▪ I had that experience in my own graduate work as a chemist.
▪ He was planning to do graduate work in Egyptology, a field that the Afrocentrists had annexed to black studies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a high school graduate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
▪ He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.
▪ Many former students including the Department's first graduate, Mr Eric Jones, enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscences and renewed friendships.
▪ Patrick Wallace, an accountancy graduate from Dungannon, and Marcus Campbell both booked their debuts on snooker's most famous stage.
▪ The one that bears a picture of an honorary graduate.
▪ We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
just
▪ Benjamin Braddock, who has just graduated with honours, flies back to his wealthy family in Southern California suburbia.
▪ In 1963 Vine had just graduated in geophysics from Cambridge.
▪ I just graduated in May from the conservatory.
▪ Thousands of students just graduated all over the country in law.
▪ It was Tom Molineaux, a small, wiry, jumpy sort of person who had just graduated from Polytechnic High.
■ NOUN
class
▪ You had organized it yourself shortly after graduating from the conducting class at the Musikhochschule in Vienna?
▪ One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.
▪ He went from school to college, and he graduated top of his class.
▪ A dozen eleventh-graders in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, made up the first graduating class.
▪ Less than 10 % of those who applied for Stanford's graduating class of 2003 got in.
▪ Ballard counted the number of students qualified to enroll at City in the 1968 graduating classes of two predominantly black high schools.
▪ The annual graduating class was expected to reach 3, 000 in 1996.
▪ She graduated fifteenth in a class of five hundred.
college
▪ He went from school to college, and he graduated top of his class.
▪ Alvin had gone to work to earn money for college after graduating from high school in June 1948.
▪ At one college 20 computer students graduated last year.
▪ He was the third child in a family of six children and the only one to graduate from college.
degree
▪ There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work; then graduating to some degree of management control.
▪ Average starting salaries for graduates with technical degrees have also gotten a boost.
▪ Establishes residence and then applies to San Jose State, where he graduates in Sixty-seven, degree in mathematics.
law
▪ The list is short-and yet one must note that seventy-five percent of the female lawyers graduated from law school after 1970.
▪ He tried practicing in a firm after graduating from law school-in and around a stint in the military-and wanted out quickly.
school
▪ One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.
▪ My high school graduating class, in a major metropolitan area, had only a few hundred students in it.
▪ She attended school in Warsaw and graduated from high school in Minto.
▪ In 1994 the unemployment rate for recent high school graduates not enrolled in college was 36 percent.
▪ The law school graduated its first black student in 1880.
▪ The unemployment rate for black high school graduates in 1994 was nearly double that of white high school graduates.
state
▪ He also graduated from Moorhead State University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in computer information systems.
▪ By then, Graham had graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in business.
▪ He graduated from North Dakota State University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
student
▪ In 1985, only 3 percent of medical students graduated owing more than $ 75, 000.
▪ In the late 1960s between three-quarters and four-fifths of students graduated, generally in four years.
▪ In 1988, 460,000 students were graduating nationwide, but there was a demand for 700,000 a shortfall, not a surplus.
▪ The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.
▪ Thus, employment prospects for students graduating in the accounting field are excellent.
▪ More students graduate from high school than at any point in our history.
▪ A.R. You mean that drama students who are graduating from training should have the chance to join Equity?
▪ Once they entered these programs, the percentage of students expecting to graduate and enter college or vocational training more than doubled.
tax
▪ They might remember also that without bipartisan accommodation the graduated income tax never would have become a constitutional amendment.
▪ Taylor attacked a proposal by Forbes to replace the current graduated income tax with a flat tax of 17 percent.
university
▪ Background: Left nursing in 1986 to study law at East Anglia University, graduating in 1989.
▪ He tells her that it would be impossible for the university to lock into graduated raises.
year
▪ Mrs Goode's success follows that of her husband, David, who graduated two years ago in technical and computer studies.
▪ The country produces some 3,500 engineering graduates a year, only about half as many as private industry needs.
▪ At one college 20 computer students graduated last year.
▪ They had not met since they graduated over 20 years previously!
▪ The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled: Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces.
▪ A Research Dissertation which is late may result in your being unable to graduate for a further year.
years
▪ A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.
▪ Melanie Feinman plans to take five years to graduate from college, a year more than many students.
▪ Harvard MBAs change employers on average between three and four times in the ten years after they graduate.
▪ Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years work experience since graduating in economics.
■ VERB
go
▪ Paul Gross, a chemistry professor at Wake-Forest, recognised Pons' ability and recommended that he go to graduate school.
▪ She graduated with very good grades and went on to graduate school.
▪ But it was there that she went, graduating in 1949 when only 19.
▪ I went to graduate school so I could have a career teaching literature.
▪ Karen and Jess are planning to go to graduate school.
replace
▪ The present P10 flat fare using tokens will be replaced by a graduated fare structure using stored-value magnetic stripe cards.
▪ Taylor attacked a proposal by Forbes to replace the current graduated income tax with a flat tax of 17 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mitch graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in biochemistry.
▪ She graduated in modern languages and now works as an interpreter.
▪ We both graduated from the same high school in Queens.
▪ We expect to graduate nearly 300 students this year.
▪ What are you going to do after you graduate?
▪ When I graduate I want to study law at the Northeastern university.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And once Bunny graduated, so it did.
▪ He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones.
▪ Instead, students who arrive on campus with some community college credits under their belt can graduate early.
▪ The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.
III.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By graduate levels in the universities there will be several thousand.
▪ Now there are 3, 000 graduate students as well as 11, 500 undergraduates.
▪ These days, almost a quarter of Jur entering graduate students are women.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graduate

Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduatedp. 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.

Graduate

Graduate \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, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

Graduate

Graduate \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.

Graduate

Graduate \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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
graduate

early 15c., "one who holds a degree" (with man; as a stand-alone noun from mid-15c.), from Medieval Latin graduatus, past participle of graduari "to take a degree," from Latin gradus "step, grade" (see grade (n.)). As an adjective, from late 15c.

graduate

early 15c., "to confer a university degree upon," from Medieval Latin graduatus (see graduate (n.)). Intransitive sense from 1807. Related: Graduated; graduating.

Wiktionary
graduate

  1. 1 graduated, arranged by degrees 2 holding an academic degree 3 relating to an academic degree n. 1 (senseid en from a university) A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. 2 (context US Canada English) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. 3 A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive ergative English) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. 2 (label en transitive proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution). 3 (context transitive English) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree 4 (context transitive English) To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, et

  3. 5 (context intransitive English) To change gradually. 6 To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of. 7 (context chemistry English) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a flui

  4. 8 To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

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WordNet
graduate

  1. v. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"

  2. confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"

  3. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, fine-tune]

graduate

adj. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate]

graduate

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

  2. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts

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Wikipedia
Graduate

Graduate refers to someone who has been the subject of a graduation, namely, someone who has completed the requirements of an academic degree. A graduate of institution would be an alumnus of that institution.

Graduate may also refer to: a person who has completed an academic degree in any discipline

  • Graduate (dinghy), a 12.5-foot sailing dinghy
  • Graduated cylinder, a container with graduated markings used for measuring liquids
Graduate (band)

Graduate was an English new wave/ mod revival musical group formed in 1978, in Bath, England. They were only very mildly successful, and broke up by 1981. They are today best known as being the initial recording vehicle for future Tears for Fears members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, who found major international fame in the 1980s and 1990s.

Graduate (dinghy)

The Graduate is a 12.5-foot sailing dinghy. Rules for the class allow for customization the boat with rigs of various sophistication.

The class holds an open series of races each year and a 3 day National Championship. 2016 Nationals will be held at Notts County Sailing Club from 28 - 30 May. Current National Champions are John Clementson and Jamie Clementson of Chipstead Sailing Club The details of all past winners can be found at [grad website1]

Graduate (song)

"Graduate" is a song by American alternative rock group Third Eye Blind. It was released in August 1997 as the second single from their 1997 self-titled debut album. It was written by Stephan Jenkins and Kevin Cadogan. The B-side, "Horror Show", was later released on the " How's It Going to Be" single in 1998. It reached number 26 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the U.S, and number 14 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, it was featured in the 1998 film Can't Hardly Wait starring Seth Green and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

The band played this at the American Music Awards in 1998, changing some of the lyrics to "can I masturbate" in place of "can I graduate." In 2011 former Third Eye Blind members Cadogan and Arion Salazar created a music video for the song.

Graduate (film)

Graduate is a 2011 Indian Telugu language romance film written and directed by Prasad Rayala. It stars debutants Akshay and Rithika Sood in the lead roles alongside Tashu Kaushik. Murali has handled the camera and Sandeep has composed the music. This film has been released in the first week of January 2011.

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Usage examples of "graduate".

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

Harvard graduate identifying a brother alumnus, and in the face of such credentials Simon relaxed.

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.

At the high table the senior students, those about to graduate into the Game, showed more decorum, eating quietly under the watchful eyes of Gamesmaster Mertyn, King Mertyn, and Gamesmaster Armiger Charnot.

Yale graduate, who is editing an evening paper in Sioux Falls, and he began to collect the views of experts on the question of artesian irrigation.

Doc Penzoss, a high-school graduate who dispensed aspirin and Atabrine, to look at the wound.

After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.

She had been scheduled to graduate on the twelfth from a four-month avionics school in pursuit of her goal of becoming one of the fast female Marine aviators.

She was very close to realizing yet another success as she was about to graduate from avionics school.

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?

And he, Admiral Ramos Broder, honor graduate from the Deluros Military Academy, author of two highly-praised volumes on the tactics of space war, former ambassador to Canphor VI, would grow old and die, awaiting the opportunity to prove his mettle in battle.

It was remarkably short, saying only that Kosta had joined the Institute six weeks earlier after graduating from Clarkston University in Cairngorm, Balmoral.

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

As Cig dashed through the office foyer, the senior partner in Cartwell and McShane, a University of Virginia graduate in 1969 who never got over it, strode out of his office.

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