GRADUATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graduated mean? 

• GRADUATED (adjective)
  The adjective GRADUATED has 2 senses:

1. marked with or divided into degrees

2. taking place by degrees

  Familiarity information: GRADUATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRADUATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked with or divided into degrees

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

calibrated; graduated

Context example:

a calibrated thermometer

Participle:

calibrate (mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Taking place by degrees

Synonyms:

gradational; gradatory; graduated

Similar:

gradual (proceeding in small stages)

 Context examples 

A measuring device, traditionally including a graduated tube, designed for the accurate transfer of liquid volumes.

(Pipette Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

And the next moment, in a voice that was already fairly well under control, “Have you a graduated glass?” he asked.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A professional healthcare provider who has graduated from a nursing program.

(Nurse, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A professional healthcare provider who has graduated from an accredited nursing program, has passed the state exam for licensure, and been registered or licensed to practice by a state authority.

(Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)

Licensed Practical Nurse - a professional healthcare provider who has graduated from an accredited licensed practical nursing program, has passed the state exam for licensure, and been licensed to practice by a state authority.

(Licensed Practical Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)

Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with the grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his friends said.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I say that I started my pilgrimage at Chicago, graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo, gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbareen, and so eventually caught the eye of a subordinate agent of Von Bork, who recommended me as a likely man, you will realise that the matter was complex.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After I had graduated I continued to devote myself to research, occupying a minor position in King’s College Hospital, and I was fortunate enough to excite considerable interest by my research into the pathology of catalepsy, and finally to win the Bruce Pinkerton prize and medal by the monograph on nervous lesions to which your friend has just alluded.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)