(n.) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
(n.) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
Example Sentences:
(1) All respondents believed that the AACE should meet in tandem with another national convocation, and most thought that the AACE meeting was reasonably priced but expensive of time.
(2) At the funeral will be a convocation of mullahs, rabbis and all the other medieval faiths that increasingly conspire together against modernity.
(3) This campaign is offered to women aged 50 to 65, living in Bas-Rhin (74,200 women) without individual convocations.
(4) There were certainly moments that I found more offensive than Romney's unintentionally hilarious creation of a new collective noun ("a binder of women" – like, you know, a convocation of eagles), even though it edged right up to the margins of implying actual physical harm.
(5) In November 1989, representatives from 12 States attending the Annual Convocation of Southern State Epidemiologists completed a survey to enumerate epidemiologists working in central offices of State health departments.
(6) Regarding experimental results the fibrin adhesive system has been applied in 58 clinical cases with the indications: 1. convocation of fistulas introoral or extraoral 2. as biological band 3. extraoral fixation of skin grafts, used in areas with poor possibility of other kinds of skin fixation 4. in cases with clef lip and cleft palace 5. in combination with bioceramic materials 6. in combination with lyo-dura for reconstruction of orbita-floor fractures.
(7) It is only, during a subsequent treatment survey, carried out during the season of low agricultural activity and following an official written convocation, that a compliance rate similar to that of the first survey was recorded.
(8) • Editor's note: this article originally referred to a "convocation of owls"; that collective noun correctly applies to eagles.
Graduation
Definition:
(n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
(n.) The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.
(n.) The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
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'.