The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. i.
   1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as,
      sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes
      graduates into quartz.
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   2. (Zool.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
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   3. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a
      graduate; to receive a diploma.
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            He graduated at Oxford.               --Latham.
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            He was brought to their bar and asked where he had
            graduated.                            --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduatedp. pr. &
   vb. n. Graduating.] [Cf. F. graduer. See Graduate, n.,
   Grade.]
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   1. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps,
      grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a
      scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
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   2. To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in
      a college or university, to admit, at the close of the
      course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as,
      he was graduated at Yale College.
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   3. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by
      degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees
      of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
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            Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.
                                                  --Browne.
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   4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by
      evaporation, as a fluid.
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   Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing
      engine, under Dividing.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, n. [LL. graduatus, p. p. of graduare to
   admit to a degree, fr. L. gradus grade. See Grade, n.]
   1. One who has received an academical or professional degree;
      one who has completed the prescribed course of study in
      any school or institution of learning.
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   2. A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass
      measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See
      under Graduated.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, a. [See Graduate, n. & v.]
   Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
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         Beginning with the genus, passing through all the
         graduate
         and subordinate stages.                  --Tatham.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

graduate
    adj 1: of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
           "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate]
    n 1: a person who has received a degree from a school (high
         school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna,
         alum, graduate, grad]
    2: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass
       container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked
       with or divided into amounts
    v 1: receive an academic degree upon completion of one's
         studies; "She graduated in 1990"
    2: confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000
       students each year"
    3: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for
       optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a
       cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

191 Moby Thesaurus words for "graduate":
   Admirable Crichton, academic, adept, adjust, advance, aggrandize,
   alumna, alumnae, alumni, alumnus, ameliorate, amend, appraise,
   appreciate, artisan, artist, assay, assess, attache, authority,
   autodidactic, bachelor, be blooded, be successful, bookish, bulk,
   calculate, calibrate, calibrated, caliper, catch on,
   check a parameter, click, college graduate, college man,
   college-bred, collegiate, come along, come off, come on, compute,
   connaisseur, connect, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu,
   crack shot, craftsman, cross-disciplinary, dead shot, decrease,
   degrees, develop, dial, differentiate, diplomat, diplomatist,
   divide, doctoral candidate, educated class, educated man,
   elder statesman, elevate, enlarge, ennoble, estimate, evaluate,
   exalt, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, farewell,
   fathom, gain, gain ground, gauge, get ahead, get along, go,
   go ahead, go forward, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big,
   go to town, grad, gradate, gradational, grade, gradual,
   graduate student, graduate-professional, graduated, group,
   grow better, handy man, hierarchic, improve, increase,
   interdisciplinary, journeyman, kick upstairs, knight, learned,
   look up, make a hit, make headway, make progress, make strides,
   mark, marksman, match, measure, meet with success, meliorate, mend,
   mensurate, meritocracy, mete, meter, no slouch, pace, pass,
   pedagogical, perk up, pick up, plumb, politician, postgraduate,
   prefer, prevail, prize, pro, probe, professional, professor,
   proficient, progress, progressive, promote, proportion, prosper,
   qualify, quantify, quantize, raise, range, rank, rate, regular,
   savant, scalar, scale, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish,
   schoolgirlish, schoolish, shade off, shape up, shark, sharp,
   show improvement, size, size up, skyrocket, sophomoric, sort,
   sound, span, statesman, step, studentlike, studious, succeed,
   survey, take, take a reading, take off, technical adviser,
   technician, triangulate, undergraduate, up, upgrade, valuate,
   value, weigh, work well, work wonders