graduating

Verb

graduate (third-person singular simple present graduates, present participle graduating, simple past and past participle graduated)

1. (ergative, intransitive) To 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. (proscribed, transitive) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
   • Trisha graduated college.
3. (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
   • Indiana University graduated the student.
4. (transitive) To 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. (intransitive) To change gradually.
   • As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.1852, William Macgillivray, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, page 573
6. To 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

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