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Graduated vs Gradated - What's the difference?

graduated | gradated |

As verbs the difference between graduated and gradated

is that graduated is past tense of graduate while gradated is past tense of gradate.

As an adjective graduated

is 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

    gradated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gradate)

    • gradate

    English

    Verb

    (gradat)
  • To change imperceptibly from one gradation of tone etc. to another
  • To arrange in order of grades
  • (chemistry) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration.
    • to gradate a saline solution