English words for 'Having an academic degree.'
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adj
verb
- confer an academic degree upon
- receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training
- (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- (intransitive, Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
- (intransitive) To change gradually.
- (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
- (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- (transitive) 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 prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- (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 measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
verb
- To take an academic degree.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- follow a procedure or take a course
- continue talking
- follow a certain course
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
noun
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- A person holding such a degree.
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Ellipsis of master key.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
adj
verb
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
noun
- A bachelor's degree.
- an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies
- (US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
- A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to pursue higher education.
- The International Baccalaureate.
- a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies
noun
- A master's degree.
- The title of the eldest son of a Scots lord.
- A person holding a master's degree, as a title.
- The title of the head of certain colleges and schools.
- The owner of a slave, in some literature.
- (BDSM) Used as the title of a dominant, especially a male one.
- Prepended to a boy's name or surname as a (now somewhat formal) form of address.
- A religious teacher, often as an honorific title.
name
adj
- Having a university degree; having completed training.
- (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
- Marked with graduations.
- Arranged by grade, level, or degree.
- (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
- marked with or divided into degrees
- taking place by degrees
verb
noun
- a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
- A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
- a licensed medical practitioner
- children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
- A fish, the friar skate.
- A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
- A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
- A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
verb
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
- give medical treatment to
- (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
- (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
- (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
- (transitive, figurative) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
- (transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
- (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
noun
- Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
- (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
- A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
- The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
- A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
- a man who has never been married
- a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
verb
noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
- a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
- a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
- (Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
- An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).
- (inorganic chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
verb
noun
- someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
- (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
- The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
- The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
- (US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
noun
- a third-year undergraduate
- the younger of two persons
- term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
- (countable, chiefly US, Philippines) A third-year student at a high school or university.
- (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
- (uncountable) A clothing size for girls or women.
- (countable, law) A junior barrister.
- A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
- (countable) A younger person.
adj
- including or intended for youthful persons
- used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
- younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
- (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
- (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
- (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
- (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
- (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
verb
noun
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
verb
- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
noun
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- A companion; a comrade.
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
adj
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- bring or come into association or action
- keep company with; hang out with
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- A person holding such a degree.
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Ellipsis of master key.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
adj
verb
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
noun
- A bachelor's degree.
- an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies
- (US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
- A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to pursue higher education.
- The International Baccalaureate.
- a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies
noun
- A master's degree.
- The title of the eldest son of a Scots lord.
- A person holding a master's degree, as a title.
- The title of the head of certain colleges and schools.
- The owner of a slave, in some literature.
- (BDSM) Used as the title of a dominant, especially a male one.
- Prepended to a boy's name or surname as a (now somewhat formal) form of address.
- A religious teacher, often as an honorific title.
name
noun
- a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
- A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
- a licensed medical practitioner
- children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
- A fish, the friar skate.
- A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
- A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
- A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
verb
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
- give medical treatment to
- (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
- (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
- (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
- (transitive, figurative) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
- (transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
- (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
noun
- Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
- (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
- A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
- The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
- A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
- a man who has never been married
- a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
verb
adj
verb
- confer an academic degree upon
- receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training
- (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- (intransitive, Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
- (intransitive) To change gradually.
- (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
- (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- (transitive) 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 prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- (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 measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
- a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
- a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
- (Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
- An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).
- (inorganic chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
verb
noun
- someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
- (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
- The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
- The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
- (US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
noun
- a third-year undergraduate
- the younger of two persons
- term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
- (countable, chiefly US, Philippines) A third-year student at a high school or university.
- (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
- (uncountable) A clothing size for girls or women.
- (countable, law) A junior barrister.
- A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
- (countable) A younger person.
adj
- including or intended for youthful persons
- used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
- younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
- (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
- (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
- (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
- (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
- (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
verb
noun
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
verb
- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
noun
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- A companion; a comrade.
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
adj
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- bring or come into association or action
- keep company with; hang out with
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To take an academic degree.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- follow a procedure or take a course
- continue talking
- follow a certain course
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
adj
verb
- confer an academic degree upon
- receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training
- (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- (intransitive, Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
- (intransitive) To change gradually.
- (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
- (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- (transitive) 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 prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- (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 measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
adj
verb
- confer an academic degree upon
- receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training
- (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- (intransitive, Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
- (intransitive) To change gradually.
- (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
- (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- (transitive) 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 prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- (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 measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
adj
- Having a university degree; having completed training.
- (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
- Marked with graduations.
- Arranged by grade, level, or degree.
- (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
- marked with or divided into degrees
- taking place by degrees