graduate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹædjueɪt/|/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒueɪt/    美 /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. Canada,US
  3. A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education. Philippines
  4. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
动词 v.
  1. To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. ergative,intransitive
    — The man graduated in 1967.
  2. To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution). proscribed,transitive
    — Trisha graduated college.
  3. To certify (a student) as having earned a degree transitive
    — Indiana University graduated the student.
  4. 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. transitive
  5. To change gradually. intransitive
    — As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.
  6. 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
  7. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
  8. To taper, as the tail of certain birds. intransitive
  9. To approve (a feature) for general release. transitive
    — We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.
  10. 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. Japanese,intransitive
    — Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.
形容词 adj.
  1. graduated, arranged by degrees
  2. holding an academic degree
  3. relating to an academic degree

词形变化

graduates plural more graduate comparative most graduate superlative graduates present,singular,third-person graduating participle,present graduated participle,past graduated past

词汇关系

反义词
student drop-out
衍生词
Christmas graduate graduate engineer graduateness graduate nurse graduate school graduateship graduate student graduate student descent graduate tax graduate thesis graduator graduette nongraduate post-graduate pregraduate pre-graduate subgraduate disgraduate nongraduating
相关词
grade graduation
并列词
graduand undergraduate postgraduate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō).
词源 2
From Middle English graduaten (“to graduate”), from (adjective) graduat(e) (also used as the past participle of graduaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Medieval Latin graduātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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