Graduate vs Capable - What's the difference?
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(senseid) A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
(US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
graduated, arranged by degrees
holding an academic degree
relating to an academic degree
(ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. See note on “from” usage.
To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
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.
To change gradually.
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
* Browne
(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
(obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in. Construed with of'', ''for or an infinitive.
* 1775 Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'' (''Works 10.479):
As adjectives the difference between graduate and capable
is that graduate is graduated, arranged by degrees while capable is able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.As a noun graduate
is (from a university) A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.As a verb graduate
is to be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. See note on “from” usage.graduate
English
(wikipedia graduate)Noun
(en noun)- If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives .
Antonyms
* (person recognized for having finished studies) student, drop-outCoordinate terms
* (person recognized by school) (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(graduat)- The man graduated in 1967.
- Trisha graduated from college.
- Trisha graduated college.
- Indiana University graduated the student.
- The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
- sandstone which graduates''' into gneiss; carnelian sometimes '''graduates into quartz
- to graduate the heat of an oven
- Dyers advance and graduate their colours with salts.
Usage notes
In the sense “to complete studies”, the preposition “from” is often used, but may be dropped in informal speech, as in “I just graduated' ''from'' college” vs. (informal) “I just ' graduated college”. This varies between speakers, and some speakers consider “from” required, marking “I graduated college” as incorrect or uneducated. Note also that the subject and object can switch between the school and the student: “I graduated' [from] Indiana University last year” vs. “Indiana University ' graduated me last year”.Derived terms
* graduatorcapable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is capable and efficient.
- He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.
- As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.
- That fact is not capable of proof.
- He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.