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graduate has 7 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
“She graduated in 1990”
confer an academic degree upon
“This school graduates 2,000 students each year”
make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for graduate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
“calibrate an instrument”
a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts