graduate

noun

• a person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree.
• North American a person who has received a high-school diploma.

verb

• 1 [no object] successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (North American) high school:he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990
• [with object] North American confer a degree or other academic qualification on:the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year
• (graduate to) move up to (a more advanced level or position):he started with motorbikes but now he’s graduated to his first car

• 2 [with object] arrange in a series or according to a scale: (as adjective graduated)a graduated tax
• mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate gradations:the stem was graduated with marks for each hour

• 3 [with object] change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step:the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top