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Graduated vs Diploma - What's the difference?

graduated | diploma |

As verbs the difference between graduated and diploma

is that graduated is (graduate) while diploma is .

As an adjective graduated

is (obsolete) in steps.

graduated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (graduate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) In steps.
  • Having a university degree; having completed training.
  • Marked with graduations.
  • Arranged by grade, level, degree.
  • * 1888 , Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants , London: Whiting and Co., p 17:
    • The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
  • (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  • (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

    • Derived terms

    * graduated cylinder

    diploma

    English

    (wikipedia diploma)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.

    • Related terms

    * diplomacy * diplomat * diplomatic

    External links

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