单词 | graduation |
释义 | graduation (once / 2188 pages) 1n 2n Graduation happens when you successfully complete an academic program, like high school or college. Then you go to a graduation ceremony. Scientists might talk about the graduation lines on beakers and rulers that mark out units of measurement. But when most people hear this word, they think about finishing school. Students and their families celebrate graduation from high school, college, training programs, and even kindergarten. At graduation ceremonies, people often wear funny tasseled hats and long robes, then walk up one by one to get an official diploma or certificate. WORD FAMILYgraduation: graduations+/graduate: graduated, graduates, graduating, graduation, postgraduate, undergraduate/postgraduate: postgraduates/undergraduate: undergraduates USAGE EXAMPLESWalker says he wants to tie funding to performance, such as enrollment, students in high-demand areas, graduation rates and graduates gaining employment. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) This morning I received a message from a friend from middle and high school, Chad, whom I haven’t seen since graduation two decades ago. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) There was a photo of him at his graduation, another at a pool. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n the successful completion of a program of study Hyper closing, completion, culmination, mop up, windup a concluding action 2n an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred 2Syn|Hyper commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise exercise (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches 1n a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement the ruler had 16 graduations per inch Hyper line a mark that is long relative to its width 2n the act of arranging in grades Syn|Hypo|Hyper gradation blending, shading a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades quantification the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something |
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