Matriculate vs. Graduate

Matriculateverb

(transitive) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university

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.’;

Matriculateverb

(intransitive) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.

Graduatenoun

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

Matriculatenoun

A person admitted to membership in a society.

Graduatenoun

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

Matriculateverb

To enroll; to enter in a register;

‘In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America.’;

Graduatenoun

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

Matriculateverb

To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.

Graduateadjective

graduated, arranged by degrees

Matriculateadjective

Matriculated.

Graduateadjective

holding an academic degree

Matriculatenoun

someone who has been admitted to a college or university

Graduateadjective

relating to an academic degree

Matriculateverb

enroll as a student

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.’;

Matriculateverb

be enrolled at a college or university

‘they had recently matriculated as undergraduates at Jesus College’;

Graduateverb

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

‘Trisha graduated college.’;

Matriculateverb

admit (a student) to membership of a college or university

‘he was matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford’;

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.’;

Matriculateverb

pass the final school-leaving examination

‘a total of 123 boys and girls who matriculated last year were registered with his department’;

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.

Matriculateverb

record (arms) in an official register

‘the arms have been matriculated by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh’;

Graduateverb

(intransitive) To change gradually.

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

Matriculatenoun

a person who has matriculated.

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’;