To honor with a degree or diploma, in a college or university; to confer a degree on; as, to graduate a master of arts.

To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or division; as, to graduate a thermometer.

To form shades or nice differences.

To raise to a higher place in the scale of metals.

To advance by degrees; to improve. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.

To temper; to prepare. Diseases originating in the atmosphere act exclusively on bodies graduated to receive their impressions.

To mark degrees or differences of any kind; as, to graduate punishment.

In chimistry, to bring fluids to a certain degree of consistency.

To receive a degree from a college or university.

To pass by degrees; to change gradually. Sandstone which graduates into gneiss, Carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

One who has received a degree in a college or university, or from some professional incorporated society.