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Graduate vs. Postgraduate

Graduate and Postgraduate Definitions

Graduate

To be granted an academic degree or diploma
Most of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.

Postgraduate

Of, relating to, or pursuing advanced study after graduation from high school or college.

Graduate

To change gradually or by degrees
"The most weighty of all the arguments against treating the races of man as distinct species, is that they graduate into each other" (Charles Darwin).

Postgraduate

One who is engaged in postgraduate study.

Graduate

To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity
After a month of diving instruction, they all graduated to back flips.

Postgraduate

A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.
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Graduate

To grant an academic degree or diploma to
The school has graduated many gifted chemists.

Postgraduate

Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course.

Graduate

Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from
How many chemists graduated the Institute last year?.

Postgraduate

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.

Graduate

To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades
Graduate an income tax.

Postgraduate

A student who continues studies after graduation
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Graduate

To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement
Graduate a thermometer.

Postgraduate

Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
Graduate courses

Graduate

One who has received an academic degree or diploma.

Graduate

A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.

Graduate

Possessing an academic degree or diploma.

Graduate

Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate courses.
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Graduate

A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.

Graduate

A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.

Graduate

(Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.

Graduate

A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

Graduate

Graduated, arranged by degrees

Graduate

Holding an academic degree

Graduate

Relating to an academic degree

Graduate

To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
The man graduated in 1967.
Trisha graduated from college.

Graduate

To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
Trisha graduated college.

Graduate

(transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
Indiana University graduated the student.
The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.

Graduate

(transitive) To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

Graduate

(intransitive) To change gradually.
Sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz

Graduate

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
To graduate the heat of an oven

Graduate

(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

Graduate

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Graduate

(Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

Graduate

To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

Graduate

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Graduate

To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
He graduated at Oxford.
He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

Graduate

Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduateand subordinate stages.

Graduate

A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Graduate

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

Graduate

Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies;
She graduated in 1990

Graduate

Confer an academic degree upon;
This school graduates 2,000 students each year

Graduate

Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring;
Calibrate an instrument
Graduate a cylinder

Graduate

Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
Graduate courses

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