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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'.

Graduated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Graduate
  • (a.) Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
  • (a.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.

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'.