How to pronounce “graduate”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
• (US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
• (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
• A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
• [Adjective]
• graduated, arranged by degrees
• holding an academic degree
• relating to an academic degree
• [Verb]
• (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
• (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
• (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
• (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.
• (intransitive) To change gradually.
• To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
• (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
• (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
• (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
• (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.

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