Graduate vs. Alum

Graduatenoun

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.’;

Alumnoun

An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄.Al₂(SO₄)₃.24H₂O).

Graduatenoun

A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.

Alumnoun

(chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

Graduatenoun

(Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.

Alumnoun

(US) A graduate of a university or other institution.

Graduatenoun

A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

Alumverb

(transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Graduateadjective

graduated, arranged by degrees

Alumnoun

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

Graduateadjective

holding an academic degree

Alumverb

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Graduateadjective

relating to an academic degree

Alumnoun

a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum

Graduateverb

To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

‘The man graduated in 1967.’; ‘Trisha graduated from college.’;

Alumnoun

a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum

Graduateverb

To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).

‘Trisha graduated college.’;

Alumnoun

a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Graduateverb

(transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

‘Indiana University graduated the student.’; ‘The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.’;

Alumnoun

a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)

Graduateverb

(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.

Alum

An alum () is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double sulfate salt of aluminium with the general formula XAl(SO4)2·12H2O, where X is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium. By itself, often refers to potassium alum, with the formula KAl(SO4)2·12H2O. Other alums are named after the monovalent ion, such as sodium alum and ammonium alum.

‘alum’;

Graduateverb

(intransitive) To change gradually.

‘sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz’;

Graduateverb

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’;

Graduateverb

(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

Graduateverb

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Graduateverb

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.

Graduateverb

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.

Graduateverb

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.

‘Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.’;

Graduateverb

To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

Graduateverb

To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

Graduateverb

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Graduateverb

To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

‘He graduated at Oxford.’; ‘He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated.’;

Graduatenoun

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.

Graduatenoun

A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

Graduateadjective

Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

‘Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduateand subordinate stages.’;

Graduatenoun

a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Graduatenoun

a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts

Graduateverb

receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies;

‘She graduated in 1990’;

Graduateverb

confer an academic degree upon;

‘This school graduates 2,000 students each year’;

Graduateverb

make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring;

‘calibrate an instrument’; ‘graduate a cylinder’;

Graduateadjective

of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;

‘graduate courses’;

Graduatenoun

a person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree.

Graduatenoun

a person who has received a high school diploma

‘she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High’;

Graduatenoun

a graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists.

Graduateverb

successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school

‘he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990’; ‘he graduated in the summer with a 2:2 degree’;

Graduateverb

receive an academic degree from

‘he graduated Harvard in 1965’;

Graduateverb

confer a degree or other academic qualification on

‘the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year’;

Graduateverb

move up to (a more advanced level or position)

‘he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car’;

Graduateverb

arrange in a series or according to a scale

‘the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite’;

Graduateverb

mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate gradations

‘the stem was graduated with marks for each hour’;

Graduateverb

change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step

‘the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top’;