What's the difference between graduation and valedictory?

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'.

Valedictory


Definition:

  • (a.) Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
  • (n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For Liverpool it has been a harrowing, valedictory year, the kind that deserves a send-off, and they had one here even in defeat.
  • (2) Italy crashed out, though Fabio Quagliarella’s valedictory lob from distance deep into injury time ensured they at least departed South Africa with a flourish.
  • (3) "In every business the chief executive wakes up in the morning wondering where the growth will come from," he reflected in valedictory remarks.
  • (4) The 87-year-old congressman, who has represented a Michigan district as a Democrat in the House of Representatives for almost six decades, has been on a valedictory tour since announcing, back in February, that he is retiring at the end of the year.
  • (5) In a valedictory email to stakeholders last week Karen Boswell, the outgoing managing director, trumpeted a record that saw the company garner awards and plaudits.
  • (6) But more than 7,000 Democrats didn’t just turn up for a valedictory fry and senatorial rally.
  • (7) Kreis has repeatedly insisted a decision has not been made, and his club owner Dell Loy Hansen is still publicly holding out hope that a revised, lucrative offer can keep the coach, but there was a valedictory feel to Kreis's comments at the Thursday evening press conference, when he acknowledged that ever since the final game of the season against Chivas, he's had to deal with the sensation of knowing that each game "might be the last match that I get to coach with this group," even as he insisted that "the decision has yet to be made."
  • (8) A less dramatic but no less important valedictory observation was made in an interview earlier in the week , when Sir Michael was asked about the pace of constant upheaval in school structures and the curriculum at the education department during his time at Ofsted: “I have learned this not just as chief inspector but also as a headteacher: that change sometimes has to be slow and incremental.” In a peripatetic political culture, that can be a hard lesson for politicians to heed.
  • (9) Before his retirement, Roth's mood became valedictory ( Exit Ghost , 2007) but still defiant ( Indignation , 2008).
  • (10) In his parliamentary valedictory speech, Hockey called for an end to “the revolving door in Australian politics” and said the Abbott government “was good at policy but struggled with politics”.
  • (11) Having offered his successor some beneficial advice, he gave a valedictory wave - "I wish you and the club all the best for the future" - before signing off with a defiant flourish.
  • (12) Byrne's brief epistle was redolent of a similar valedictory message left by Reginald Maudling to James Callaghan after Labour won a narrow victory in the 1964 general election.
  • (13) Coming of Age, was something of a valedictory address, not only by its dramatis personae but by Terkel himself.
  • (14) Several are retiring at this coming poll, and we heard their contributions in the valedictories this week.
  • (15) On Tuesday the BBC will broadcast his "last interview", a valedictory two-part conversation with Alan Yentob, shot at his Manhattan home in a film for Imagine , directed by Sarah Aspinall.
  • (16) Sir Iain Lobban, the outgoing director of Britain’s eavesdropping agency GCHQ, has used his valedictory address to deliver a full-throated defence of its activities in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations.
  • (17) Of course, he has given himself a hell of a send-off in this valedictory painting.
  • (18) Merkel and Obama developed a close working relationship and the German government sees his choice of Berlin as his final European stop on his valedictory tour as a testament to that personal bond and to Germany’s status as a bastion of relative stability on a turbulent continent.
  • (19) BBC director general Mark Thompson's valedictory appearance before MPs on Tuesday touched on many of the controversies of his eight years in charge – executive pay, the lack of older women on screen and the rights and wrongs of BBC1's The Voice.
  • (20) In days gone by, British ambassadors would wait until they were leaving before firing off a valedictory despatch that revealed what they really thought about their foreign hosts.