(n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) You're an alumnus of Nottingham's respected Television Workshop (past students include Samantha Morton).
(2) Though Chasez has pursued a relatively successful post-Sync career, as a solo artist and reality TV judge, the group has a yet more famous alumnus.
(3) LTPA was measured with the Lipid Research Clinics (LRC), Godin Leisure-Time Exercise, and the College Alumnus physical activity questionnaires.
(4) Just before the Murdoch tweet, Colin Moynihan – a former Tory minister, alumnus of Monmouth school and chair of the British Olympic Association – cited the fact that 50% of Britain's gold-medal winners at the Beijing Olympics were from private schools as "one of the worst statistics in British sport".
(5) Some years ago, in company with Divya Narendra, another Harvard alumnus who had worked with them on the original concept, they launched a lawsuit against the Facebook founder that resulted in two things: a $65m legal settlement in which the Winklevii got $20m in cash and $45m-worth of Facebook shares; and a major Hollywood movie – The Social Network – which tells the story in colourful terms.
(6) I hope that King’s will listen to its most beloved alumnus and a man revered around the world as a moral voice,” said Mark Horowitz, from the Fossil Free KCL campaign.
(7) What clearly will not influence Davies, a Manchester Grammar School boy, Oxford graduate and alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the prime minister's notion of a happiness index, once promoted by David Cameron as a rival barometer of success to growth which, it was said, would play a key role in the big future policy decisions.
(8) Market abuse An alumnus of Clifton College, a leading private school, and Oxford University, Sants is invariably described as smooth by anyone who has had dealings with him.
(9) As a black alumnus who walked past that statue for four years, I think Rhodes should be left exactly where he is “He was racist.
(10) "Well, if you were to pick up our March edition (on sale February 5), you could see the single healthiest foodstuff available at each and every Premiership ground in the country," writes kindly GU alumnus and now commisioning editor at Men's Health magazine, Dan Jones.
(11) He was elected to that post on his second attempt, in 1978, helped by another St John’s alumnus and Catholic politician, the Democratic governor, Hugh Carey .
(12) A lawyer and University of Michigan alumnus, Orr helped steer Chrysler out of bankruptcy, but this is a dilemma of an altogether greater magnitude.
(13) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
(14) The Mackintosh Building is not just part of Glasgow's heritage - it is a national treasure May 23, 2014 3.53pm BST Another alumnus of the GSA is the broadcaster and journalist Muriel Gray, pictured here in tears near the scene of the fire.
(15) A Procter and Gamble alumnus, Bret is a past board member of Stanley Park Ecological Society and licensee for TEDxUBC.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump arrived just in time to do the monologue where a gag about how Trump actually thought plus-sized brunette cast member Aidy Bryant was Rosie O’Donnell was moderately amusing, as was Trump standing cheek to impressive jowl with two of his impersonators from the show, current cast member Taran Killam and alumnus Darrell Hammond, who did fake-Trump duties back in 2004 when he last hosted the show, at the height of his The Apprentice resurgence.
(17) Ralph Egwu, 27, is working with Edinburgh University alumnus Amy Burridge towards an A-level in government and politics in what is his first experience of formal education.
(18) Updated at 12.59pm BST 12.41pm BST Shiv Malik has joined the blog with this dispatch from a Hounslow school that boasts a fairly famous alumnus: I’m here at Feltham community college on the outskirts of west London where pupils and teachers have delivered a “truly outstanding” set of academic results.
(19) Relations were at a low during Boris Yeltsin's presidency, but there was a marked thaw after Aliev's fellow KGB alumnus, Vladimir Putin came to power.
(20) With regard to all-cause mortality, cigarette smoking and hypertension were most hazardous for the individual; smoking and lack of vigorous recreational play were most hazardous for the alumnus population as a whole.
Graduate
Definition:
(n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
(n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
(n.) To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
(n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
(v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
(v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
(v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
(n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
(n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
(n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(3) Controversy exists regarding immunization with pertussis vaccine of high-risk special care nursery graduates.
(4) Approximately half the foreign graduates born in the United States studied in Italy, and 10% in Switzerland, Mexico and Belgium.
(5) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
(6) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(7) In 1984, 286 male US graduates matched in pathology, but this number dropped to 150 in 1985 and 149 in 1986.
(8) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(9) 31 junior high students and seven university undergraduates who graduated from the same junior high school seven years before were asked to draw a layout of the school campus.
(10) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
(11) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
(12) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(13) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
(14) A graduate can earn £240,000 more than a non-maths graduate.
(15) A graduate education program in public health for American Indians was introduced in the fall of 1971 at the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
(16) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
(17) A questionnaire was administered to 57 UWI-trained medical graduates presently doing their internship in Jamaica.
(18) THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR MEDICAL LIBRARY PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES CONSISTS OF FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS: graduate degree programs in library science with specialization in medical librarianship; graduate degree programs in library science with no such specialization; postgraduate internships in medical libraries; continuing education programs.
(19) As a result of the clerkship's success, over 50 percent of the program's graduates actively practice in primary medical manpower shortage or medically underserved areas.
(20) (2) COME is third-grade medical education producing third-grade graduates and 'barefoot doctors'.