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Meaning of graduate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  graduate
      adj 1: of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
             "graduate courses" [syn: {graduate(a)}, {postgraduate}]
      n 1: a person who has received a degree from a school (high
           school or college or university) [syn: {alumnus}, {alumna},
           {alum}, {graduate}, {grad}]
      2: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass
         container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked
         with or divided into amounts
      v 1: receive an academic degree upon completion of one's
           studies; "She graduated in 1990"
      2: confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000
         students each year"
      3: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for
         optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a
         cylinder" [syn: {calibrate}, {graduate}, {fine-tune}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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