The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduatedp. 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 or rewards, etc.
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.
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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.
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(Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.
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vb. (present participle of graduate English)
Usage examples of "graduating".
Lundt provided the information readily enough, yes he was at SUNY Binghamton, yes studying business administration, no he wouldn't be graduating this year he'd taken a couple of semesters off but he was serious now, working very hard and she and her husband expected Zachary to get his degree possibly as early as next spring.
Like graduating from high school (Corinne Hausmann was the first in her family), like insisting upon going to college at Fredonia (what an audacious step that had been).
Ephraim High's 1976 graduating class, all but a handful had always been wary of Patrick Mulvaney.
Of course, Zachary Lundt was a classmate of Patrick's, who would be graduating with him on June 19, ranked sixty-five in his class.
The greatest concentration of the chemical bomb (hydrogen sulfide: ingeniously implanted in the building's basement ventilating system) was at the front of the auditorium where the eighty-nine graduating seniors, their teachers and school district administrators were seated By the time the Patriot-Ledger printed its front-page article on the mysterious event, two days later, declaring in broad headlines STINK BOMB DISRUPTS MT.
Those of the graduating class who survive are inducted into the warrior caste - the highest caste among the Morgors.
You see, the members of the graduating class outnumber their antagonists two to one.
They had told me what I was to expect at the graduating exercises, and I gave the subject considerable thought.
He commenced to howl to the others, who were pursuing the Savators, to come back and help him, bellowing that here was the creature from Garobus who had led the slaughter at the graduating exercises.
Those of the graduating class who survive are inducted into the warrior caste – the highest caste among the Morgors.
They made it in two days and Aunt Alvirah washed and starched and ironed it herself and it was ready for appearance on the last Friday afternoon of the term, when the district school held its graduating exercises.
Everyone in the graduating class revered it and the tradition of self-sacrifice and courage it represented-a tradition being passed along to them today.
If he had stopped in mid-syllable, pointed at any one of the graduating cadets, and asked him or her to take the story from there, the graduate would have done it with even more detail and accuracy.
She would have been graduating at the top of her class, with marks and honors succeeding generations would have found hard to beat, if not for certain peccadillos, disciplinary lapses, and scrapes with the MPs.
Thorny was an honorary member of several of Gravesend's graduating classes.