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Completed vs Graduated - What's the difference?

completed | graduated |

As verbs the difference between completed and graduated

is that completed is (complete) while graduated is (graduate).

As adjectives the difference between completed and graduated

is that completed is finished while graduated is (obsolete) in steps.

completed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (complete)
  • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4] (pdf) from [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/chemical-synthesis/learning-center/aldrichimica-acta.html Sigma-Aldrich
  • :: He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of New South Wales in 1958 and went on to the Victoria University of Manchester where his studies on the fungal pigment phomazarin led to the award of a Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of (the late) Professor Arthur J. Birch.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • finished
  • graduated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (graduate)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) In steps.
  • Having a university degree; having completed training.
  • Marked with graduations.
  • Arranged by grade, level, degree.
  • * 1888 , Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants , London: Whiting and Co., p 17:
  • The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
  • (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  • (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
  • Derived terms

    * graduated cylinder