What's the difference between graduation and pass?

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'.

Pass


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.
  • (v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.
  • (v. i.) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.
  • (v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.
  • (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
  • (v. i.) To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.
  • (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
  • (v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
  • (v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
  • (v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
  • (v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
  • (v. i.) To take heed; to care.
  • (v. i.) To go through the intestines.
  • (v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
  • (v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
  • (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
  • (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
  • (v. t.) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
  • (v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
  • (v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
  • (v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
  • (v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
  • (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.
  • (v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
  • (v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
  • (v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
  • (v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  • (v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
  • (v. i.) An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.
  • (v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
  • (v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
  • (v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.
  • (v. i.) Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
  • (v. i.) Estimation; character.
  • (v. i.) A part; a division.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
  • (3) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (4) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (5) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
  • (6) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
  • (7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
  • (8) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (9) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (10) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (11) Approximately 50% of a bolus injection of 125I-ANP was removed during a single pass through the lungs compared with the intravascular marker 14C-dextran.
  • (12) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (13) To evaluate the acute changes in left ventricular (LV) performance before and immediately after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 25 patients underwent first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography for construction of pressure-volume loops.
  • (14) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (15) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
  • (16) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
  • (17) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (18) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (19) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
  • (20) Eleven patients spontaneously passed the calculus, ten prior to delivery and one patient postpartum.