graduate

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1. 1.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.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.(Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.
4. 4.To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
5. 5.(Zoöl.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
9. 9.Arrangei by successive steps or degrees; graduated. Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. Tatham.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing called?
• What is to pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz called?
• What is to taper, as the tail of certain birds called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is a graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated called?
• What is arrangei by successive steps or degrees; graduated. Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. Tatham called?