What's the difference between graduate and undergraduate?

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'.

Undergraduate


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (2) It has proven useful in developing attitudinal objectives, measuring achievement of these objectives and modifying teaching approaches in both undergraduate and continuing medical education.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) The 156-item scale demonstrated moderate internal consistency and high test-retest reliability in a sample of undergraduate women.
  • (5) The practicum was designed to meet two objectives in the undergraduate curriculum: (1) to give students experience in the care of patients and families in the community by using cancer as a model of a life-threatening disease requiring acute and chronic care, rehabilitation, etc.
  • (6) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
  • (7) Major life events and daily hassles were examined in a sample of 102 university undergraduates.
  • (8) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
  • (9) It is further hoped that this action will encourage the faculties of undergraduate schools to examine the way in which they prepare students for careers in medicine.
  • (10) Chelvan has been an outspoken human rights activist since his days as an undergraduate.
  • (11) Another issue identified by BASW is that universities are having major problems in finding enough placements for undergraduate social workers.
  • (12) The panel presents recommendations for using the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, which assesses the effectiveness of 169 types of prevention interventions, in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
  • (13) Undergraduates dump each other with lines like: "Going out with you is like dating a Stairmaster."
  • (14) Imperial College [said] that 34% of their undergraduates are from non-EU, 64% of their postgraduates are non-EU," said Willis.
  • (15) One hundred and twenty-six asthmatics in a practice of 4012 patients were interviewed at home by an undergraduate medical student.
  • (16) This technique has been found to be a very useful aid in the teaching of occlusion to both graduate and undergraduate students.
  • (17) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
  • (18) The subjects were undergraduate students (male = 240; female = 240) who responded to a vignette describing a sexual interaction between a father and daughter.
  • (19) Forty-three undergraduate and 12 graduate students provided numerical evaluations of their own outer beauty and inner beauty, both in class, and immediately following a pseudostuttering assignment.
  • (20) In order to find out the career preferences of Saudi medical undergraduates as they relate to anesthesiology, questionnaires were distributed and received from 40 pre-clinical students and 26 clinical students immediately after their two-week anesthesia posting.