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Graduate vs. Intern — What's the Difference?

Graduate vs. Intern — What's the Difference?

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Graduate

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.

Intern

A student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.

Graduate

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

Intern

Confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons
The family were interned for the duration of the war as enemy aliens

Graduate

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
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Intern

Serve as an intern.

Graduate

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

Intern

A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.

Graduate

Change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step
The colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top

Intern

A physician who has recently graduated from medical school and is learning medical practice in a hospital under supervision, prior to beginning a residency program.

Graduate

To be granted an academic degree or diploma
Most of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.

Intern

One who is interned; an internee.

Graduate

To change gradually or by degrees
"The most weighty of all the arguments against treating the races of man as distinct species, is that they graduate into each other" (Charles Darwin).

Intern

To train or serve as an intern.

Graduate

To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity
After a month of diving instruction, they all graduated to back flips.

Intern

To confine, especially in wartime.

Graduate

To grant an academic degree or diploma to
The school has graduated many gifted chemists.

Intern

A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.

Graduate

Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from
How many chemists graduated the Institute last year?.

Intern

A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

Graduate

To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades
Graduate an income tax.

Intern

A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

Graduate

To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement
Graduate a thermometer.

Intern

(transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Graduate

One who has received an academic degree or diploma.

Intern

To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.

Graduate

A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.

Intern

To internalize.

Graduate

Possessing an academic degree or diploma.

Intern

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Graduate

Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate courses.

Intern

(intransitive) To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.

Graduate

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.

Intern

(archaic) Internal.

Graduate

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

Intern

Internal.

Graduate

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

Intern

To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

Graduate

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

Intern

To hold until the end of a war, as enemy citizens in a country at the time of outbreak of hostilities; - an action performed by countries.

Graduate

Graduated, arranged by degrees

Intern

A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called houseman in Britain.

Graduate

Holding an academic degree

Intern

A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern in a law firm.

Graduate

Relating to an academic degree

Intern

An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)

Graduate

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.

Intern

Deprive of freedom;
During WWII, Japanese were interned in camps in the West

Graduate

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

Intern

Work as an intern;
The toung doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year

Graduate

(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.

Graduate

(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.

Graduate

(intransitive) To change gradually.
Sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz

Graduate

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

Graduate

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

Graduate

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Graduate

(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.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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

Graduate

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

Graduate

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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.

Graduate

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

Graduate

Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduateand subordinate stages.

Graduate

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

Graduate

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

Graduate

Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies;
She graduated in 1990

Graduate

Confer an academic degree upon;
This school graduates 2,000 students each year

Graduate

Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring;
Calibrate an instrument
Graduate a cylinder

Graduate

Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
Graduate courses

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