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1.verbTo be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution."The man graduated in 1967."
2.verbTo be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution)."Trisha graduated college."
3.verbTo certify (a student) as having earned a degree"Indiana University graduated the student."
4.verbTo mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
5.verbTo change gradually."sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz"
6.verbTo 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"
7.verbTo bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
8.verbTo taper, as the tail of certain birds.
9.adjectiveIn steps.
10.adjectiveHaving a university degree; having completed training.
11.adjectiveMarked with graduations.
12.adjectiveArranged by grade, level, degree.
13.adjectiveIncreasing in rate with the taxable base.
14.adjectiveOf a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.