degree : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
  degree.
  
  • he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude

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• . (Eng. Univ.) See under Accumulation.

Webster 1913

• (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

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• noun a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
  associate.
  

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• noun an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies
  baccalaureate.
  

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• step by step; by little and little; by moderate advances. "I 'll leave by degrees." Shak.

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• adverb by a short distance
  little by little; by inches.
  
  • they moved it by inches

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• noun the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
  comparative.
  
  • `faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'
  • `less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'
  • `more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'

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• (Mus.), two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson.

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• noun a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
  C; degree Celsius.
  

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• noun a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
  C; degree Celsius.
  

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• noun the day on which university degrees are conferred
  commencement day.
  
• noun a unit used in estimating fuel requirements for heating a building
  

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• noun a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
  F.
  

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• (Geom.), the number which expresses the degree of the equation of the curve or surface in rectilinear coördinates. A straight line will, in general, meet the curve or surface in a number of points equal to the degree of the curve or surface and no more.

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• noun the degree of the term in the polynomial that has the highest degree
  

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• noun the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term
  

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• noun (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution
  
• noun one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system
  

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• (Geog.), on the earth, the distance on a meridian between two parallels of latitude whose latitudes differ from each other by one degree. This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.702 statute miles at the equator, and 69.396 at the poles.

Webster 1913

• the distance on a parallel of latitude between two meridians that make an angle of one degree with each other at the poles a distance which varies as the cosine of the latitude, being at the equator 69.16 statute miles.

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• noun a course of study leading to an academic degree
  

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• noun one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
  doctorate.
  

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• noun a degree of one
  
  • all of the terms in a linear equation are of the first degree

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• noun an honours degree of the highest class
  first.
  

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• noun burn causing redness of the skin surface
  

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• (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade.

Webster 1913

• noun a degree conferred to honor the recipient
  honoris causa.
  

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• noun a university degree with honors
  honours.
  

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• noun degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school
  

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• degrees of relationship named in Leviticus, within which marriage is forbidden.

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• noun an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree
  

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• noun the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
  positive.
  

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• (Gram.), that state of an adjective or adverb which denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble.

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• noun burn causing blisters on the skin and superficial destruction of the dermis
  

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• noun the superlative form of an adjective or adverb
  superlative.
  
  • `fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'
  • `least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'
  • `most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'

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• noun interrogation often accompanied by torture to extort information or a confession
  

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• noun burn characterized by destruction of both epidermis and dermis
  

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• to an extreme; exceedingly; as, mendacious to a degree.

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• adverb in no manner
  nowise.
  
  • they are nowise different

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• adverb to the degree or extent that
  to that extent; insofar; so far; in so far.
  
  • insofar as it can be ascertained, the horse lung is comparable to that of man
  • so far as it is reasonably practical he should practice restraint

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• adverb used to form the superlative
  most.
  
  • the king cobra is the most dangerous snake

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• adverb used to form the superlative
  least.
  
  • The garter snake is the least dangerous snake

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