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| Sounds | dihgriy' |
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| Rhymes | accusatory, actuary, adversary, and 424 more rhymes in riy... |
| Meaning | A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality. |
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| Examples | "it is all a matter of degree" |
| Synonyms | grade, level |
| Broader | property |
| Narrower | quality, caliber, calibre; intensity, intensiveness; depth; highness; high; low; lowness; extreme; amplitude level; moderation, moderateness; immoderation, immoderateness; sun protection factor, SPF |
| Attributes | high; low; mild; intense |
| Meaning | A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. |
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| Examples | "a remarkable degree of frankness" |
| Synonyms | level, stage, point |
| Broader | state |
| Narrower | ladder; acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top; extent; resultant, end point; standard of living, standard of life; plane; state of the art; ultimacy, ultimateness; quickening; climax |
| Meaning | An award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study. |
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| Examples | "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" |
| Synonyms | academic degree |
| Broader | award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| Narrower | associate degree, associate; bachelor's degree, baccalaureate; honours, honours degree; master's degree; doctor's degree, doctorate; law degree; honorary degree, honoris causa |
| Meaning | A unit of temperature on a specified scale. |
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| Examples | "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" |
| Broader | temperature unit |
| Narrower | degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C; degree Fahrenheit, F |
| Meaning | A measure for arcs and angles. |
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| Examples | "there are 360 degrees in a circle" |
| Synonyms | arcdegree |
| Part of | oxtant; sextant |
| Parts | minute, arcminute, minute of arc |
| Broader | angular unit |
| Meaning | The highest power of a term or variable. |
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| Broader | exponent, power, index |
| Narrower | degree of a term; degree of a polynomial; first degree |
| Meaning | The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime). |
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| Examples | "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn" |
| Broader | magnitude |
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