| 单词 | graduate |
| 释义 | graduate (once / 201 pages) 1vnadj 2vn To graduate means to successfully complete your schooling, to become "a graduate." When you graduate from high school, you become a high school graduate and congratulations are in order. A graduate is someone who has received a degree from a school. As a verb graduate refers to the act of receiving this degree “I plan to graduate from college in the spring,” or the act of giving a degree “I want to graduate all of my students.” In a scientific sense, graduate can mean to calibrate for fine adjustments. To make a thermometer, you have to graduate it by degrees so it displays a range of temperatures. WORD FAMILYgraduate: graduated, graduates, graduating, graduation, postgraduate, undergraduate+/graduation: graduations/postgraduate: postgraduates/undergraduate: undergraduates USAGE EXAMPLESMore than 300 men passed through the courses for volunteers, he said, some of them graduates of his civilian training. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) After graduating from Stanford, in 1950, Joyce won a contest to work in the advertising department at Mademoiselle magazine, in New York. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Weaver graduated from the police academy last summer and was assigned to the Huntingdon barracks. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies She graduated in 1990 Hyper have, receive get something; come into possession of 2v confer an academic degree upon This school graduates 2,000 students each year Hyper bestow, confer present 3n a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) Syn|Hypo|Hyper alum, alumna, alumnus, grad Ivy Leaguer a student or graduate at an Ivy League school old boya former male pupil of a school bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines 4adj of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree 2graduate courses Syn postgraduate high greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount 1v make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring graduate a cylinder Syn|Hyper calibrate, fine-tune adjust, correct, set alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard 2n a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts Hypo|Hyper graduated cylinder a cylindrical graduate measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something |
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