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What does graduate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word graduate? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
  2. (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. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
Adjective
  1. graduated, arranged by degrees
  2. holding an academic degree
  3. relating to an academic degree
Verb
  1. (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
  2. (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
  3. (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
  4. (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.
  5. (intransitive) To change gradually.
  6. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
  7. (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
  8. To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
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