Available Definitions:
1) a. - Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
2) a. - Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
3) n. - To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
4) n. - To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
5) v. i. - To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
6) v. i. - To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
7) v. i. - To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
8) n. - One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
9) n. - A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
10) n. & v. - Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.