| 单词 | graduate |
| 释义 | graduate —graduator, n. n. , adj. /graj"ooh it, -ayt'/; v. /graj"ooh ayt'/, n., adj., v., graduated, graduating. n. 1. a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school. 2. a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree. 3. a cylindrical or tapering graduated container, used for measuring. adj. 4. of, pertaining to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student. 5. having an academic degree or diploma: a graduate engineer. v.i. 6. to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often fol. by from): She graduated from college in 1985. 7. to pass by degrees; change gradually. v.t. 8. to confer a degree upon, or to grant a diploma to, at the close of a course of study, as in a university, college, or school: Cornell graduated eighty students with honors. 9. Informal. to receive a degree or diploma from: She graduated college in 1950. 10. to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in. 11. to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer. [1375-1425; late ME < ML graduatus (ptp. of graduare), equiv. to grad(us) GRADE, step + -u- thematic vowel + -atus -ATE1] Usage. In the sense "to receive a degree or diploma" GRADUATE followed by FROM is the most common construction today: Her daughter graduated from Yale in 1981. The passive form WAS GRADUATED FROM, formerly insisted upon as the only correct pattern, has decreased in use and occurs infrequently today: My husband was graduated from West Point last year. Even though it is condemned by some as nonstandard, the use of GRADUATE as a transitive verb meaning "to receive a degree or diploma from" is increasing in frequency in both speech and writing: The twins graduated high school in 1974. |
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