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Graduate is a related term of practised.


As verbs the difference between graduate and practised

is that graduate is (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 while practised is (practise).

As a noun graduate

is (senseid) a person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

As an adjective graduate

is graduated, arranged by degrees.

graduate

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid) 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 .
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * (person recognized for having finished studies) student, drop-out

    Coordinate terms

    * (person recognized by school) (l), (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • graduated, arranged by degrees
  • holding an academic degree
  • relating to an academic degree
  • Verb

    (graduat)
  • (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.
  • The man graduated in 1967.
    Trisha graduated from college.
    Trisha graduated college.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sandstone which graduates''' into gneiss; carnelian sometimes '''graduates into quartz
  • 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
  • * Browne
  • Dyers advance and graduate their colours with salts.
  • (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
  • To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
  • 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

    * graduator

    practised

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (practise)

  • practise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)

    Verb

    (practis)
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
  • You should practise playing piano every day.
  • (intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
  • If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
  • They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
  • She practised law for forty years before retiring.
  • (intransitive, obsolete, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To conspire.
  • To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
  • * Alexander Pope
  • As this advice ye practise or neglect.
  • To make use of; to employ.
  • * Massinger
  • In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
  • To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • * Landor
  • In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.

    Usage notes

    * In sense "to repeat an activity as a way improving one's skill" this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Derived terms

    * practised * practising

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