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# grad

noun (grad, grads) — informal

«grad» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Grad is a short, informal word for a graduate, a person who has finished high school, college or university. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#m1)
2. Grad school means a school for study after university. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#m2)
3. A grad is also a small unit for measuring angles; 100 grads make a right angle, but degrees are used much more. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#m3)

### In the lessons

Rarely in the lessons; a person in the story, or a piece of a word like «grade» or «gradual». In everyday life in the USA and Canada: «grad» is the graduation party or ceremony. Phrases: «a new grad», «grad night», «grad school».

### Examples

- Each grad got a diploma. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x1)
- 120 grads walked across the stage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x2)
- Read «grad» as «graduate». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x3)
- My cousin is a college grad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x4)
- The grads threw their caps in the air. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x5)
- Our school has a grad party in June. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x6)
- My aunt went to grad school to become a scientist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x7)
- Calculators can show angles in degrees or grads. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x8)

### Note

No clue on its own; it names who is counted. Trap: it may be a cut piece of «grade» or «gradual». Informal: in writing, «graduate» is better. Do not mix grads and degrees: a right angle is 90 degrees.

## In Jewish tradition

Rarely in the lessons; a person in the story, or a piece of a word like «grade» or «gradual». In everyday life in the USA and Canada: «grad» is the graduation party or ceremony. Phrases: «a new grad», «grad night», «grad school».

### Examples

- Grad- ually Nothing took upon itself the form and limitation of Unity, represented by a point at the centre ot a circle" (H. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grad/#x1)

### Note

No clue on its own; it names who is counted. Trap: it may be a cut piece of «grade» or «gradual». Informal: in writing, «graduate» is better. Do not mix grads and degrees: a right angle is 90 degrees.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grad.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «grad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/grad.html) on Mova free.