gradiate

The unofficial verb of gradient, often used in image manipulation.

If you create landscape pictures, you'll need to gradiate sunsets to make them look realistic.

by TheLastGoodSubmitter July 19, 2013

Gradiate

A made-up word used in music, specifically brass bands, which combines graduate, grade and possibly radiate, though the historical accuracy of this is yet to be confirmed. Normally used to describe dynamics.

"Basses, please gradiate that crescendo. I don't want you to peak too soon." (Beurgh)

by doyleysthesaurus.com September 29, 2010

Gradiate

When you gradually involve yourself into someone's life.

Wow, all of the sudden Tom has begun to Gradiate towards me.

by Arti.Sapounts May 11, 2017

graduate student

A young adult whose number one motivating factor is free food.

Marissa, a graduate student, just attended a pointless workshop on conflict resolution just because there was free pizza there.

by Carla Cat October 29, 2013

Gladiate

The act of wearing the best mascot costume known to man. A responsibility held only by the few and the brave.

Sorry ladies, I have to go Gladiate.

by Lavendar Gooms May 5, 2023

graduate student

One who chooses to add to the breadth of their education by embarking upon a program that may award him/her a master's degree, a Ph.D, or no degree at all. While this decision may, under very particular circumstances, lead to a position as a tenured professor in a university, it will most likely lead to a decade or more of delaying the individual's entry to what most people would call the "real" world. Becoming a graduate student allows one to enter the self-perpetuating institution of academia.

Ex. 1
Typical sign in a physical sciences laboratory: "Do not feed graduate students and other lab animals."

Ex. 2
Grad student: "I'm writing a thesis on the remnants of Victorian culture in modern stereotypes of Transylvania."

Friend: "What are you going to use that for?"

Grad student: "I hope to become an English professor because if I'm lucky, I may one day out-earn high school teachers."

by academicbubble January 7, 2012

College Graduate Dichotomy

When a person graduates from college, although they have a degree they may not be able to get a job because they don’t have experience. But, they can’t get experience unless they get a job.

The term was first coined by Dain Lewis on his blog the smart college grad.

Jack graduated from college with a degree in business. But, Jack didn't work at any businesses while in college. Jack then couldn't get a job after college because he didn't have experience. But, he couldn't gain any experience because no one would hire him. Jack found himself in the college graduate dichotomy.

by collegegrad January 8, 2011