graduate

1. (n) A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. 2. (n) (US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. 3. (n) (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education. 4. (adj) holding an academic degree 5. (adj) relating to an academic degree 6. (v) (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. 7. (v) (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree 8. (v) (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution). 9. (v) (transitive) 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. 10. (v) (intransitive) To change gradually. 11. (v) To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of. 12. (n) A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring. 13. (adj) graduated, arranged by degrees 14. (v) (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds. 15. (v) (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release. 16. (v) (intransitive, Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like. 17. (v) (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.