Graduate vs Qualify - What's the difference?
graduate | qualify |
(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.
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
* Macaulay
To certify or license someone for something.
To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
*1598 , Shakespeare,
*:O! never say that I was false of heart,
*:Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
As nouns the difference between graduate and qualify
is that 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 while qualify is an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.As verbs the difference between graduate and qualify
is that 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 while qualify is to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.As an adjective graduate
is graduated, arranged by degrees.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
* graduatorqualify
English
Verb
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
- he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde , / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
- It hath no larynx to qualify the sound.