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درجہ بدرجہ ۔ |
(1) - Gradual (n.) A series of steps. (2) - Gradual (n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass. (3) - Gradual (n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps. (4) - Gradual (n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. |
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درجے مقرر کرنا ۔ کسی جامعہ سے سند لینا ۔ سند یافتہ ۔ فاضل ۔ |
(1) - Graduate (n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated. (2) - Graduate (n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated. (3) - Graduate (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. (4) - Graduate (v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. (5) - Graduate (v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds. (6) - Graduate (v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz. (7) - Graduate (n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. (8) - Graduate (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. (9) - Graduate (n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College. (10) - Graduate (n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc. |