Graduate vs. Undergraduate

By Jaxson

  • Graduate (noun)

    A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

    “If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.”

  • Graduate (noun)

    A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.

  • Graduate (noun)

    A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.

  • Graduate (noun)

    A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

  • Graduate (adjective)

    graduated, arranged by degrees

  • Graduate (adjective)

    holding an academic degree

  • Graduate (adjective)

    relating to an academic degree

  • Graduate (verb)

    To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

    “The man graduated in 1967.”

    “Trisha graduated from college.”

  • Graduate (verb)

    To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).

    “Trisha graduated college.”

  • Graduate (verb)

    To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

    “Indiana University graduated the student.”

    “The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.”

  • Graduate (verb)

    To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

  • Graduate (verb)

    To change gradually.

    “sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz”

  • Graduate (verb)

    To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.

    “to graduate the heat of an oven”

  • Graduate (verb)

    To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

  • Graduate (verb)

    To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

  • Undergraduate (noun)

    A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

  • Undergraduate (adjective)

    Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

    “After completing my undergraduate studies, I embarked on a career in publishing.”

Wiktionary
  • Graduate (noun)

    a person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree.

  • Graduate (noun)

    a person who has received a high school diploma

    “she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High”

  • Graduate (noun)

    a graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists.

  • Graduate (verb)

    successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school

    “he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990”

    “he graduated in the summer with a 2:2 degree”

  • Graduate (verb)

    receive an academic degree from

    “he graduated Harvard in 1965”

  • Graduate (verb)

    confer a degree or other academic qualification on

    “the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year”

  • Graduate (verb)

    move up to (a more advanced level or position)

    “he started with motorbikes but now he’s graduated to his first car”

  • Graduate (verb)

    arrange in a series or according to a scale

    “the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite”

  • Graduate (verb)

    mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate gradations

    “the stem was graduated with marks for each hour”

  • Graduate (verb)

    change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step

    “the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top”

Oxford Dictionary

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