Definition of degree in English:

degree

noun dɪˈɡriːdəˈɡri

1The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present.
程度
a degree of caution is probably wise
一定程度的谨慎很可能是明智的。
mass noun a question of degree
程度问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- Now had they made that statement, I would have credited them with some degree of intelligence.
- Instead it demands a considerable degree of autonomy and nurtures individualism.
- The truth is that, despite a considerable degree of open debate, critics of the regime face severe repression.
- In the past, and to a large degree in the present as well, many people studied English with people who couldn't speak it.
- To my mind, what's really in doubt is the degree or amount of relevance of the text in question.
- The art that the three emperors used to assert their power was based on an outstanding degree of craftsmanship directed to the service of the state.
- The goal of this kind of programme is for students to achieve some degree of proficiency in the language.
- Nevertheless, there seems to be a considerable degree of uncertainty in the present legal proceedings.
- In varying degrees, they are present in this book.
- The natural world, despite disruptions, displays a striking degree of order and regularity.
- Other media can provide immediacy, and to varying degrees, some level of interactivity.
- To what degree do you think that's going to change the social make-up of the people who live right by the coast?
- Although there are no castes, there is a relatively high degree of social inequality.
- More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy.
- I say that because to an extent, a degree of that happened on the race agenda.
- But the potential investigators have been, to a considerable degree, otherwise occupied.
- The molecules in each state have a different degree of order or randomness about them.
- Businesses can't function without some degree of social responsibility.
- The matters to which you refer certainly give that direct evidence a degree of credibility.
- We have various levels of alert and degrees of readiness.
Synonyms
level, stage, point, rung, standard, grade, gradation, mark
amount, extent, measure, magnitude, intensity, strength
proportion, ratio
2A unit of measurement of angles, one ninetieth of a right angle or the angle subtended by one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle.
度，角度
set at an angle of 45 degrees
调到45度角。
Example sentencesExamples
- One antenna was rotated by 90 degrees in successive steps while data were recorded at each position.
- You must state the angle (in radians or in degrees, your choice) and the reasoning behind your answer.
- We turned 90 degrees for our descent, planning to head for the mainland between airways.
- Open at an angle of forty-five degrees twisting the bottle, slowly letting the pressure build, while holding the cork.
- A camera cannot capture a 360 degree panorama or the emotion you feel from direct experience.
- The curve value is the number of degrees formed by the angle of intersection of these perpendiculars.
- Three hollow rays diverge at angles of 120 degrees from the central part.
- Those men also divided the complete circle into 360 degrees by taking the angle of the triangle as their fundamental unit and dividing this into 60 sub-units.
- Be sure your cuts are at an angle of exactly 45 degrees.
- A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed.
- The sky was a very pale blue colour, with one sun a few degrees off of the direct center.
- It was at altitude and was heading east at about 080 degrees and at an elevation angle of around 40 degrees.
- Not being a whiz at geometry, I stared at the pattern for quite a while trying to figure out the formula for measuring the degrees of the angles.
- The computer showed my ball speed was 150 miles per hour, my launch angle 14 degrees and my spin rate 4,400 revolutions per minute.
- The direction of landing is what is critical here as landing a perfect trick requires the player to land at a perfect 180 degrees to their angle of takeoff.
- The needle should enter the skin at 30 degrees and be directed parallel to the groove.
- Even-spray nozzles are available with 80 degrees or 95 degrees spray angles.
- I'm working on memorizing the sines, cosines, and tangents of degrees of a circle in terms of pi.
- When one band finished, the stage turned 180 degrees and the other band began shortly after.
- The new pier will extend 30 metres at an angle of 30 degrees to the existing pier and will provide much needed facilities for the fishing, island and tourist crafts.
3A unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness.
温度，密度，硬度
water boils at 100 degrees Celsius
水在摄氏100度时沸腾。（Symbol：°）（符号：°）。
Example sentencesExamples
- After having cooled off for many billions of years, the temperature of this radiation is just a few degrees above absolute zero.
- The parasite typically needs an ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and an altitude of less than 2,000 metres to survive.
- However, we borrow the basic measurement scale from physics and we measure the photographic colour temperature in degrees Kelvin.
- If they stop moving altogether, the temperature drops to Absolute Zero which is - 273 degrees Centigrade.
- If you have a meat thermometer, check that the internal temperature reaches 72 degrees Celsius.
- They were also careful not to breathe from the regulators in the air, passing freezing condensate from their mouths into second stages that were several degrees below zero.
- Try an oven temperature around 175 degrees Celsius.
- The memory signal could not be detected at temperatures above 75 degrees Celsius, where the charges within the domains behave differently.
- The alloys used in medical imaging superconduct only at supercold temperatures, about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
- At constant depth, the temperature dropped almost twenty degrees.
- December through to February are some of the best months to visit this tropical country, and the average temperature is 31 degrees centigrade.
- You may have heard that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade.
- In Thailand I was hit by waves of heat of more than 30 degrees centigrade immediately after stepping off the plane after a four-hour journey.
- I started to get the chills on the descent despite the 95 degree heat.
- Powered by a mighty nuclear fusion reactor with a core temperature of 100 million degrees that explosively vaporises the chilled liquid hydrogen propellant
- When researchers bumped up temperatures in a simulated office from 68 to 77 degrees, keyboard errors fell by over 40 percent.
- The workers were forced to manufacture radiator parts in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius for between 12 to 20 hours a day.
- Australian laws state all cheese has to be made of pasteurised milk where the milk is heated to around 70 degrees in order to kill bacteria.
- This is the proportion by which the rate of a chemical reaction is raised by an increase in temperature of 10 degrees on the Celsius scale.
- Most incandescent lamps operate with a color temperature of approximately 2900 degrees Kelvin.
1. 3.1in combination Each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity.
  烧伤度（通常是三度）。见FIRST-DEGREE，SECOND-DEGREE，THIRD-DEGREE
  See first-degree, second-degree, third-degree
2. 3.2often in combination A legal grade of crime or offence, especially murder.
  〈主北美〉（尤指谋杀）罪行轻重度
  second-degree murder
  二级谋杀罪。
  criminal conduct in the first degree
  Example sentencesExamples
  A person is guilty of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree when he restrains another person under circumstances which expose the latter to a risk of serious physical injury.
  If he is convicted of first-degree murder, that would also kick in whether there are special circumstances.
  A person is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree if he or she intentionally abducts another person under circumstances not amounting to kidnapping in the first degree.
  He was arrested that night and charged with 1st degree murder.
  His new wife is being held as a material witness to first-degree murder.
  There has been no cross examination of the Claimant with a view to establishing what degree of contributory negligence should be attributed to him.
  She was indicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on the charge of murder in the first degree.
  He was actually convicted of 2nd degree murder, reduced on appeal to manslaughter.
  English criminal law has two degrees of homicide: murder and manslaughter.
  After he turned down the plea bargain, a grand jury indicted Webb on fourth degree criminal contempt.
  For the purposes of the criminal law there are degrees of negligence: and a very high degree of negligence is required to be proved before the felony is established.
3. 3.3often in combination A step in direct genealogical descent.
  亲等
  second-degree relatives
  二级谋杀罪。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Who are relatives within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity?
  Everyone on the same level is the same degree of cousin and is in the same generation.
  Blood relationship in the direct line (i.e., between father and daughter, grandfather and granddaughter, etc.) invalidates marriage regardless of the degree of relationship.
4. 3.4Music A position in a musical scale, counting upwards from the tonic or fundamental note.
  〔乐〕音级
  the lowered third degree of the scale
  音阶降低的第三音。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I achieved this not by starting the inverted form on the subdominant degree, but by modifying its tail at measure 47.
  The reason that this chord is the best is because it contains the leading note (7th degree).
  A minor, therefore, is related to a major key with its tonic on C, the mediant or third degree of the scale of A minor.
5. 3.5Mathematics The class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present.
  〔数〕次，次数
  an equation of the second degree
  二次方程。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bent over their computers, thirty savants were absorbed in equations of the ninety-fifth degree.
  The algebraic solution of general equations of degree greater than four is always impossible.
  In particular he worked on Galois theory, ideals and equations of the fifth degree.
  The first person to claim that equations of degree 5 could not be solved algebraically was Ruffini.
  The degree of the final equation resulting from any number of complete equations in the same number of unknowns, is equal to the product of the degrees of the equations.
  In 1593 Roomen had proposed a problem which involved solving an equation of degree 45.
6. 3.6Grammar Any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative.
  〔语法〕（形容词或副词的）级
  Example sentencesExamples
  Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse).
  The comparative and superlative degrees in adjectives are shown in two ways.
  In Latin, however, one may also use the comparative degree to compare an entity with the norm or the average.
  Here the superlative degree makes sense because we are comparing this year's crop to the crops from all earlier years
7. 3.7 A rank in an order of freemasonry.
  共济会职务
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are 33 degrees of initiation in freemasonry, the 33rd degree being the highest.
  The Masonic medal shown in Plate XIII is what is known in the order as a Mark medal for a Freemason with degrees of the Mark Lodge and Royal Arch Masonry.
8. 3.8archaic A thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row.
  〈古〉层级
4An academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course, or conferred as an honour on a distinguished person.
学位
a degree in zoology
动物学学位。
Example sentencesExamples
- Over a third of graduates are in jobs that do not require degree qualifications.
- However, this is suggestive in that it appears very few programs require writing courses be taken in order to receive the degree.
- I moved home with my parents after finishing my degree in order to work and save for graduate school.
- She wants to see the parts of the world she has missed so far and would like to continue her studies to take a Master's degree in Social Policy and Criminology.
- Tolstoy left the university in his third year, before ever getting his official degree.
- Yet, corporates look for more than degree certificates from the young men and women whom they interview for jobs.
- There are several routes a student can take in order to earn a degree in architecture.
- Last month, the board approved new undergraduate degree programs in social work and marine science.
- And if so, is a history or engineering degree a suitable qualification?
- Most other master's degree programs also require additional education before accepting applied degree holders.
- He got his first job on a film set while still studying for a social sciences degree at Glasgow University.
- In the city, she quickly latched onto the more practical applications with an art therapy qualification, leading into a social work degree.
- She got a job with VSO, sending doctors and nurses all over the world and went on to do a master's degree in social policy in developing countries.
- It was while doing his social development studies degree that he got into acting.
- A basic graduate degree, excellent communication skills, good grasp of English and a pleasant voice are all you need.
- He later earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University.
- I start my Master's degree officially tomorrow, though classes don't start for another month or so.
- He took on a dozen jobs in the 1930s, finally taking a Bachelor of Commerce degree by correspondence and qualifying as a chartered accountant.
- In order to earn her degree she had to undertake a media project and decided to bring to life a story close to her own family.
- Actually he'd just passed his finals but hadn't received his degree so couldn't officially call himself doctor yet.
5archaic mass noun Social or official rank.
〈古〉社会地位，官衔
persons of unequal degree
地位不平等的人。
Example sentencesExamples
- People who confirm certain degree of public status often do public talk.
- He was a lifelong member of St. Peter's Parish and a member of the Knights of Columbus as a third degree knight and fourth degree honorary knight.
- Spanish and English courtiers were carefully intermingled in order of their degrees on the steps of the throne.
Synonyms
social class, social status, rank, standing/position in society
dated station
archaic estate, condition

Phrases

by degrees

A little at a time; gradually.
逐渐地
rivalries and prejudice were by degrees fading out
敌对和偏见逐渐淡去。
Example sentencesExamples
- It certainly feels as if I am relinquishing this city by degrees.
- The yellow fades by degrees into a kind of cream.
- While that may happen by degrees over time, he feels the town is not ready for more restrictions yet.
- His search for such connections between forms and names has led him, by degrees, to the sculpture-installation.
- It was only by degrees that I started to feel some kind of artistic calling.
- The women look friendly enough, but life is wearing them down by degrees.
- People are not born criminal, they grow into it by degrees.
- As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children.
- Changes take place by degrees - there are moments of violence but the security is in the status quo.
- In the water, the same process takes place as the child gains gradual control of balance and, by degrees, increases movement ability.
Synonyms
gradually, little by little, bit by bit, inch by inch, by stages, step by step, day by day, slowly, slowly but surely

to a degree

1To some extent.
一定程度上
to a degree, it is possible to educate oneself
从一定程度上说，可以自学。
Example sentencesExamples
- So, you know, while they're friends to a degree, they're probably not above shoving the other guy out of the way.
- He laughed heartily and I watched in awe as his waistline was stretched to a degree that I didn't think possible.
- The discomfort with using rational self-interest as an underlying principle is understandable, to a degree.
- Certainly, we're not saying that the way things are done in the industry is wonderful, and musicians are being exploited to a degree.
- We benefit certainly to a degree, but how do you put a value on that?
- And I think when you take it further, you'll find that the media is part of the problem too, to a degree.
- I describe myself like you describe yourself - to a degree.
- Further, I am influenced to a degree, I am bound to say, by this consideration.
- It is possible to adjust to a degree, but it gets frustrating failing to pull of a move at critical moments.
- And to a degree that frustrates and confounds the left, they frequently aren't stupid.
Synonyms
to some extent, to a certain extent, up to a point, to a limited extent
1. 1.1dated To a considerable extent.
  〈旧〉相当地
  the pressure you were put under must have been frustrating to a degree
  强加在你身上的压力一定相当地令人沮丧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Music punctuates our everyday lives to a degree that we rarely appreciate.
  His analogy is insensitive to a degree that is almost unfathomable.
  The music is the drama, to a degree that remains unrivalled.
  Color, sound and geometry cooperate to a degree rarely seen in animated film, or in film at all for that matter.
  In many ways Cold War cultural production was ideologically driven to a degree not seen before or since.
  A series of climatic bouts in the ring highlight the movie's climax with realism to a degree that you want to turn your head.
  She had a unique talent to spot a voice and she trained several young singers to a degree where they became renowned artists.
  Its behaviour carried to a degree that would be hard to explain away.
  But when you talk to them you realise that they're informed and opinionated to a degree very rare among young Britons.
  He allowed me to participate in the making of these movies to a degree that not a lot of screenwriters experience.

Derivatives

degreeless

adjective

Origin

Middle English (in the senses 'step', 'tier', 'rank', or 'relative state'): from Old French, based on Latin de- 'down' + gradus 'step or grade'.

The source of degree is a French word based on Latin de- ‘down’ and gradus ‘step’ source of grade. Early senses of the word include ‘step, tier’, ‘rank’ and ‘relative state’. The use of degree for an academic qualification came from the medieval Mastership or Doctorate, which was attained in stages or degrees. The ‘step’ sense is found in the geometrical use (Late Middle English), measurement of heat (early 18th century), and in the expression by degrees or step by step.

Rhymes

absentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee

Definition of degree in US English:

degree

noundəˈɡrēdəˈɡri

1The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present.
程度
a degree of caution is probably wise
一定程度的谨慎很可能是明智的。
a question of degree
程度问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- The truth is that, despite a considerable degree of open debate, critics of the regime face severe repression.
- I say that because to an extent, a degree of that happened on the race agenda.
- The matters to which you refer certainly give that direct evidence a degree of credibility.
- Instead it demands a considerable degree of autonomy and nurtures individualism.
- But the potential investigators have been, to a considerable degree, otherwise occupied.
- The goal of this kind of programme is for students to achieve some degree of proficiency in the language.
- More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy.
- The molecules in each state have a different degree of order or randomness about them.
- To my mind, what's really in doubt is the degree or amount of relevance of the text in question.
- To what degree do you think that's going to change the social make-up of the people who live right by the coast?
- Although there are no castes, there is a relatively high degree of social inequality.
- Nevertheless, there seems to be a considerable degree of uncertainty in the present legal proceedings.
- In the past, and to a large degree in the present as well, many people studied English with people who couldn't speak it.
- The art that the three emperors used to assert their power was based on an outstanding degree of craftsmanship directed to the service of the state.
- We have various levels of alert and degrees of readiness.
- Businesses can't function without some degree of social responsibility.
- Now had they made that statement, I would have credited them with some degree of intelligence.
- In varying degrees, they are present in this book.
- Other media can provide immediacy, and to varying degrees, some level of interactivity.
- The natural world, despite disruptions, displays a striking degree of order and regularity.
Synonyms
level, stage, point, rung, standard, grade, gradation, mark
2A unit of measurement of angles, one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle.
度，角度
set at an angle of 45 degrees
调到45度角。
Example sentencesExamples
- A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed.
- I'm working on memorizing the sines, cosines, and tangents of degrees of a circle in terms of pi.
- It was at altitude and was heading east at about 080 degrees and at an elevation angle of around 40 degrees.
- Not being a whiz at geometry, I stared at the pattern for quite a while trying to figure out the formula for measuring the degrees of the angles.
- When one band finished, the stage turned 180 degrees and the other band began shortly after.
- The computer showed my ball speed was 150 miles per hour, my launch angle 14 degrees and my spin rate 4,400 revolutions per minute.
- One antenna was rotated by 90 degrees in successive steps while data were recorded at each position.
- The new pier will extend 30 metres at an angle of 30 degrees to the existing pier and will provide much needed facilities for the fishing, island and tourist crafts.
- The curve value is the number of degrees formed by the angle of intersection of these perpendiculars.
- Even-spray nozzles are available with 80 degrees or 95 degrees spray angles.
- We turned 90 degrees for our descent, planning to head for the mainland between airways.
- Open at an angle of forty-five degrees twisting the bottle, slowly letting the pressure build, while holding the cork.
- Three hollow rays diverge at angles of 120 degrees from the central part.
- You must state the angle (in radians or in degrees, your choice) and the reasoning behind your answer.
- The needle should enter the skin at 30 degrees and be directed parallel to the groove.
- A camera cannot capture a 360 degree panorama or the emotion you feel from direct experience.
- The sky was a very pale blue colour, with one sun a few degrees off of the direct center.
- Those men also divided the complete circle into 360 degrees by taking the angle of the triangle as their fundamental unit and dividing this into 60 sub-units.
- The direction of landing is what is critical here as landing a perfect trick requires the player to land at a perfect 180 degrees to their angle of takeoff.
- Be sure your cuts are at an angle of exactly 45 degrees.
3A unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness.
温度，密度，硬度
water boils at 100 degrees Celsius
水在摄氏100度时沸腾。（Symbol：°）（符号：°）。
Example sentencesExamples
- At constant depth, the temperature dropped almost twenty degrees.
- If they stop moving altogether, the temperature drops to Absolute Zero which is - 273 degrees Centigrade.
- After having cooled off for many billions of years, the temperature of this radiation is just a few degrees above absolute zero.
- Powered by a mighty nuclear fusion reactor with a core temperature of 100 million degrees that explosively vaporises the chilled liquid hydrogen propellant
- They were also careful not to breathe from the regulators in the air, passing freezing condensate from their mouths into second stages that were several degrees below zero.
- Try an oven temperature around 175 degrees Celsius.
- You may have heard that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade.
- The workers were forced to manufacture radiator parts in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius for between 12 to 20 hours a day.
- I started to get the chills on the descent despite the 95 degree heat.
- Australian laws state all cheese has to be made of pasteurised milk where the milk is heated to around 70 degrees in order to kill bacteria.
- In Thailand I was hit by waves of heat of more than 30 degrees centigrade immediately after stepping off the plane after a four-hour journey.
- Most incandescent lamps operate with a color temperature of approximately 2900 degrees Kelvin.
- When researchers bumped up temperatures in a simulated office from 68 to 77 degrees, keyboard errors fell by over 40 percent.
- If you have a meat thermometer, check that the internal temperature reaches 72 degrees Celsius.
- This is the proportion by which the rate of a chemical reaction is raised by an increase in temperature of 10 degrees on the Celsius scale.
- However, we borrow the basic measurement scale from physics and we measure the photographic colour temperature in degrees Kelvin.
- The parasite typically needs an ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and an altitude of less than 2,000 metres to survive.
- December through to February are some of the best months to visit this tropical country, and the average temperature is 31 degrees centigrade.
- The alloys used in medical imaging superconduct only at supercold temperatures, about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
- The memory signal could not be detected at temperatures above 75 degrees Celsius, where the charges within the domains behave differently.
1. 3.1in combination Each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity.
  烧伤度（通常是三度）。见FIRST-DEGREE，SECOND-DEGREE，THIRD-DEGREE
  See first-degree, second-degree, third-degree
2. 3.2often in combination A legal grade of crime or offense, especially murder.
  〈主北美〉（尤指谋杀）罪行轻重度
  second-degree murder
  二级谋杀罪。
  criminal conduct in the first degree
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was indicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on the charge of murder in the first degree.
  After he turned down the plea bargain, a grand jury indicted Webb on fourth degree criminal contempt.
  A person is guilty of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree when he restrains another person under circumstances which expose the latter to a risk of serious physical injury.
  His new wife is being held as a material witness to first-degree murder.
  There has been no cross examination of the Claimant with a view to establishing what degree of contributory negligence should be attributed to him.
  If he is convicted of first-degree murder, that would also kick in whether there are special circumstances.
  A person is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree if he or she intentionally abducts another person under circumstances not amounting to kidnapping in the first degree.
  He was arrested that night and charged with 1st degree murder.
  For the purposes of the criminal law there are degrees of negligence: and a very high degree of negligence is required to be proved before the felony is established.
  English criminal law has two degrees of homicide: murder and manslaughter.
  He was actually convicted of 2nd degree murder, reduced on appeal to manslaughter.
3. 3.3often in combination A step in direct genealogical descent.
  亲等
  second-degree relatives
  二级谋杀罪。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Everyone on the same level is the same degree of cousin and is in the same generation.
  Who are relatives within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity?
  Blood relationship in the direct line (i.e., between father and daughter, grandfather and granddaughter, etc.) invalidates marriage regardless of the degree of relationship.
4. 3.4Music A position in a musical scale, counting upward from the tonic or fundamental note.
  〔乐〕音级
  the lowered third degree of the scale
  音阶降低的第三音。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A minor, therefore, is related to a major key with its tonic on C, the mediant or third degree of the scale of A minor.
  The reason that this chord is the best is because it contains the leading note (7th degree).
  I achieved this not by starting the inverted form on the subdominant degree, but by modifying its tail at measure 47.
5. 3.5Mathematics The class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present.
  〔数〕次，次数
  an equation of the second degree
  二次方程。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1593 Roomen had proposed a problem which involved solving an equation of degree 45.
  The first person to claim that equations of degree 5 could not be solved algebraically was Ruffini.
  The degree of the final equation resulting from any number of complete equations in the same number of unknowns, is equal to the product of the degrees of the equations.
  In particular he worked on Galois theory, ideals and equations of the fifth degree.
  The algebraic solution of general equations of degree greater than four is always impossible.
  Bent over their computers, thirty savants were absorbed in equations of the ninety-fifth degree.
6. 3.6Grammar Any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative.
  〔语法〕（形容词或副词的）级
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Latin, however, one may also use the comparative degree to compare an entity with the norm or the average.
  Here the superlative degree makes sense because we are comparing this year's crop to the crops from all earlier years
  Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse).
  The comparative and superlative degrees in adjectives are shown in two ways.
7. 3.7archaic A thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row.
  〈古〉层级
4An academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course of study, or conferred as an honor on a distinguished person.
学位
a degree in zoology
动物学学位。
Example sentencesExamples
- She got a job with VSO, sending doctors and nurses all over the world and went on to do a master's degree in social policy in developing countries.
- And if so, is a history or engineering degree a suitable qualification?
- There are several routes a student can take in order to earn a degree in architecture.
- Last month, the board approved new undergraduate degree programs in social work and marine science.
- He got his first job on a film set while still studying for a social sciences degree at Glasgow University.
- Most other master's degree programs also require additional education before accepting applied degree holders.
- He took on a dozen jobs in the 1930s, finally taking a Bachelor of Commerce degree by correspondence and qualifying as a chartered accountant.
- Yet, corporates look for more than degree certificates from the young men and women whom they interview for jobs.
- It was while doing his social development studies degree that he got into acting.
- I moved home with my parents after finishing my degree in order to work and save for graduate school.
- In the city, she quickly latched onto the more practical applications with an art therapy qualification, leading into a social work degree.
- Over a third of graduates are in jobs that do not require degree qualifications.
- In order to earn her degree she had to undertake a media project and decided to bring to life a story close to her own family.
- I start my Master's degree officially tomorrow, though classes don't start for another month or so.
- However, this is suggestive in that it appears very few programs require writing courses be taken in order to receive the degree.
- Tolstoy left the university in his third year, before ever getting his official degree.
- She wants to see the parts of the world she has missed so far and would like to continue her studies to take a Master's degree in Social Policy and Criminology.
- A basic graduate degree, excellent communication skills, good grasp of English and a pleasant voice are all you need.
- He later earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University.
- Actually he'd just passed his finals but hadn't received his degree so couldn't officially call himself doctor yet.
1. 4.1 A rank in an order of Freemasonry.
  共济会职务
5archaic Social or official rank.
〈古〉社会地位，官衔
persons of unequal degree
地位不平等的人。
Example sentencesExamples
- Spanish and English courtiers were carefully intermingled in order of their degrees on the steps of the throne.
- People who confirm certain degree of public status often do public talk.
- He was a lifelong member of St. Peter's Parish and a member of the Knights of Columbus as a third degree knight and fourth degree honorary knight.
Synonyms
social class, social status, rank, position in society, standing in society

Phrases

by degrees

A little at a time; gradually.
逐渐地
rivalries and prejudice were by degrees fading out
敌对和偏见逐渐淡去。
Example sentencesExamples
- The women look friendly enough, but life is wearing them down by degrees.
- His search for such connections between forms and names has led him, by degrees, to the sculpture-installation.
- As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children.
- The yellow fades by degrees into a kind of cream.
- It certainly feels as if I am relinquishing this city by degrees.
- While that may happen by degrees over time, he feels the town is not ready for more restrictions yet.
- Changes take place by degrees - there are moments of violence but the security is in the status quo.
- People are not born criminal, they grow into it by degrees.
- It was only by degrees that I started to feel some kind of artistic calling.
- In the water, the same process takes place as the child gains gradual control of balance and, by degrees, increases movement ability.
Synonyms
gradually, little by little, bit by bit, inch by inch, by stages, step by step, day by day, slowly, slowly but surely

to a degree

1To some extent.
一定程度上
to a degree, it is possible to educate oneself
从一定程度上说，可以自学。
Example sentencesExamples
- And to a degree that frustrates and confounds the left, they frequently aren't stupid.
- The discomfort with using rational self-interest as an underlying principle is understandable, to a degree.
- It is possible to adjust to a degree, but it gets frustrating failing to pull of a move at critical moments.
- Further, I am influenced to a degree, I am bound to say, by this consideration.
- I describe myself like you describe yourself - to a degree.
- We benefit certainly to a degree, but how do you put a value on that?
- So, you know, while they're friends to a degree, they're probably not above shoving the other guy out of the way.
- He laughed heartily and I watched in awe as his waistline was stretched to a degree that I didn't think possible.
- And I think when you take it further, you'll find that the media is part of the problem too, to a degree.
- Certainly, we're not saying that the way things are done in the industry is wonderful, and musicians are being exploited to a degree.
Synonyms
to some extent, to a certain extent, up to a point, to a limited extent
1. 1.1dated To a considerable extent.
  〈旧〉相当地
  the pressure you were put under must have been frustrating to a degree
  强加在你身上的压力一定相当地令人沮丧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Its behaviour carried to a degree that would be hard to explain away.
  He allowed me to participate in the making of these movies to a degree that not a lot of screenwriters experience.
  She had a unique talent to spot a voice and she trained several young singers to a degree where they became renowned artists.
  Color, sound and geometry cooperate to a degree rarely seen in animated film, or in film at all for that matter.
  In many ways Cold War cultural production was ideologically driven to a degree not seen before or since.
  The music is the drama, to a degree that remains unrivalled.
  A series of climatic bouts in the ring highlight the movie's climax with realism to a degree that you want to turn your head.
  Music punctuates our everyday lives to a degree that we rarely appreciate.
  But when you talk to them you realise that they're informed and opinionated to a degree very rare among young Britons.
  His analogy is insensitive to a degree that is almost unfathomable.

Origin

Middle English (in the senses ‘step’, ‘tier’, ‘rank’, or ‘relative state’): from Old French, based on Latin de- ‘down’ + gradus ‘step or grade’.

词汇	degree
释义	Definition of degree in English: degree noun dɪˈɡriːdəˈɡri 1The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present. 程度 a degree of caution is probably wise 一定程度的谨慎很可能是明智的。 mass noun a question of degree 程度问题。 Example sentencesExamples Now had they made that statement, I would have credited them with some degree of intelligence. Instead it demands a considerable degree of autonomy and nurtures individualism. The truth is that, despite a considerable degree of open debate, critics of the regime face severe repression. In the past, and to a large degree in the present as well, many people studied English with people who couldn't speak it. To my mind, what's really in doubt is the degree or amount of relevance of the text in question. The art that the three emperors used to assert their power was based on an outstanding degree of craftsmanship directed to the service of the state. The goal of this kind of programme is for students to achieve some degree of proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, there seems to be a considerable degree of uncertainty in the present legal proceedings. In varying degrees, they are present in this book. The natural world, despite disruptions, displays a striking degree of order and regularity. Other media can provide immediacy, and to varying degrees, some level of interactivity. To what degree do you think that's going to change the social make-up of the people who live right by the coast? Although there are no castes, there is a relatively high degree of social inequality. More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy. I say that because to an extent, a degree of that happened on the race agenda. But the potential investigators have been, to a considerable degree, otherwise occupied. The molecules in each state have a different degree of order or randomness about them. Businesses can't function without some degree of social responsibility. The matters to which you refer certainly give that direct evidence a degree of credibility. We have various levels of alert and degrees of readiness. Synonyms level, stage, point, rung, standard, grade, gradation, mark amount, extent, measure, magnitude, intensity, strength proportion, ratio 2A unit of measurement of angles, one ninetieth of a right angle or the angle subtended by one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle. 度，角度 set at an angle of 45 degrees 调到45度角。 Example sentencesExamples One antenna was rotated by 90 degrees in successive steps while data were recorded at each position. You must state the angle (in radians or in degrees, your choice) and the reasoning behind your answer. We turned 90 degrees for our descent, planning to head for the mainland between airways. Open at an angle of forty-five degrees twisting the bottle, slowly letting the pressure build, while holding the cork. A camera cannot capture a 360 degree panorama or the emotion you feel from direct experience. The curve value is the number of degrees formed by the angle of intersection of these perpendiculars. Three hollow rays diverge at angles of 120 degrees from the central part. Those men also divided the complete circle into 360 degrees by taking the angle of the triangle as their fundamental unit and dividing this into 60 sub-units. Be sure your cuts are at an angle of exactly 45 degrees. A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed. The sky was a very pale blue colour, with one sun a few degrees off of the direct center. It was at altitude and was heading east at about 080 degrees and at an elevation angle of around 40 degrees. Not being a whiz at geometry, I stared at the pattern for quite a while trying to figure out the formula for measuring the degrees of the angles. The computer showed my ball speed was 150 miles per hour, my launch angle 14 degrees and my spin rate 4,400 revolutions per minute. The direction of landing is what is critical here as landing a perfect trick requires the player to land at a perfect 180 degrees to their angle of takeoff. The needle should enter the skin at 30 degrees and be directed parallel to the groove. Even-spray nozzles are available with 80 degrees or 95 degrees spray angles. I'm working on memorizing the sines, cosines, and tangents of degrees of a circle in terms of pi. When one band finished, the stage turned 180 degrees and the other band began shortly after. The new pier will extend 30 metres at an angle of 30 degrees to the existing pier and will provide much needed facilities for the fishing, island and tourist crafts. 3A unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness. 温度，密度，硬度 water boils at 100 degrees Celsius 水在摄氏100度时沸腾。（Symbol：°）（符号：°）。 Example sentencesExamples After having cooled off for many billions of years, the temperature of this radiation is just a few degrees above absolute zero. The parasite typically needs an ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and an altitude of less than 2,000 metres to survive. However, we borrow the basic measurement scale from physics and we measure the photographic colour temperature in degrees Kelvin. If they stop moving altogether, the temperature drops to Absolute Zero which is - 273 degrees Centigrade. If you have a meat thermometer, check that the internal temperature reaches 72 degrees Celsius. They were also careful not to breathe from the regulators in the air, passing freezing condensate from their mouths into second stages that were several degrees below zero. Try an oven temperature around 175 degrees Celsius. The memory signal could not be detected at temperatures above 75 degrees Celsius, where the charges within the domains behave differently. The alloys used in medical imaging superconduct only at supercold temperatures, about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. At constant depth, the temperature dropped almost twenty degrees. December through to February are some of the best months to visit this tropical country, and the average temperature is 31 degrees centigrade. You may have heard that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade. In Thailand I was hit by waves of heat of more than 30 degrees centigrade immediately after stepping off the plane after a four-hour journey. I started to get the chills on the descent despite the 95 degree heat. Powered by a mighty nuclear fusion reactor with a core temperature of 100 million degrees that explosively vaporises the chilled liquid hydrogen propellant When researchers bumped up temperatures in a simulated office from 68 to 77 degrees, keyboard errors fell by over 40 percent. The workers were forced to manufacture radiator parts in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius for between 12 to 20 hours a day. Australian laws state all cheese has to be made of pasteurised milk where the milk is heated to around 70 degrees in order to kill bacteria. This is the proportion by which the rate of a chemical reaction is raised by an increase in temperature of 10 degrees on the Celsius scale. Most incandescent lamps operate with a color temperature of approximately 2900 degrees Kelvin. 3.1in combination Each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity. 烧伤度（通常是三度）。见FIRST-DEGREE，SECOND-DEGREE，THIRD-DEGREE See first-degree, second-degree, third-degree 3.2often in combination A legal grade of crime or offence, especially murder. 〈主北美〉（尤指谋杀）罪行轻重度 second-degree murder 二级谋杀罪。 criminal conduct in the first degree Example sentencesExamples A person is guilty of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree when he restrains another person under circumstances which expose the latter to a risk of serious physical injury. If he is convicted of first-degree murder, that would also kick in whether there are special circumstances. A person is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree if he or she intentionally abducts another person under circumstances not amounting to kidnapping in the first degree. He was arrested that night and charged with 1st degree murder. His new wife is being held as a material witness to first-degree murder. There has been no cross examination of the Claimant with a view to establishing what degree of contributory negligence should be attributed to him. She was indicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on the charge of murder in the first degree. He was actually convicted of 2nd degree murder, reduced on appeal to manslaughter. English criminal law has two degrees of homicide: murder and manslaughter. After he turned down the plea bargain, a grand jury indicted Webb on fourth degree criminal contempt. For the purposes of the criminal law there are degrees of negligence: and a very high degree of negligence is required to be proved before the felony is established. 3.3often in combination A step in direct genealogical descent. 亲等 second-degree relatives 二级谋杀罪。 Example sentencesExamples Who are relatives within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity? Everyone on the same level is the same degree of cousin and is in the same generation. Blood relationship in the direct line (i.e., between father and daughter, grandfather and granddaughter, etc.) invalidates marriage regardless of the degree of relationship. 3.4Music A position in a musical scale, counting upwards from the tonic or fundamental note. 〔乐〕音级 the lowered third degree of the scale 音阶降低的第三音。 Example sentencesExamples I achieved this not by starting the inverted form on the subdominant degree, but by modifying its tail at measure 47. The reason that this chord is the best is because it contains the leading note (7th degree). A minor, therefore, is related to a major key with its tonic on C, the mediant or third degree of the scale of A minor. 3.5Mathematics The class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present. 〔数〕次，次数 an equation of the second degree 二次方程。 Example sentencesExamples Bent over their computers, thirty savants were absorbed in equations of the ninety-fifth degree. The algebraic solution of general equations of degree greater than four is always impossible. In particular he worked on Galois theory, ideals and equations of the fifth degree. The first person to claim that equations of degree 5 could not be solved algebraically was Ruffini. The degree of the final equation resulting from any number of complete equations in the same number of unknowns, is equal to the product of the degrees of the equations. In 1593 Roomen had proposed a problem which involved solving an equation of degree 45. 3.6Grammar Any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative. 〔语法〕（形容词或副词的）级 Example sentencesExamples Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse). The comparative and superlative degrees in adjectives are shown in two ways. In Latin, however, one may also use the comparative degree to compare an entity with the norm or the average. Here the superlative degree makes sense because we are comparing this year's crop to the crops from all earlier years 3.7 A rank in an order of freemasonry. 共济会职务 Example sentencesExamples There are 33 degrees of initiation in freemasonry, the 33rd degree being the highest. The Masonic medal shown in Plate XIII is what is known in the order as a Mark medal for a Freemason with degrees of the Mark Lodge and Royal Arch Masonry. 3.8archaic A thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row. 〈古〉层级 4An academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course, or conferred as an honour on a distinguished person. 学位 a degree in zoology 动物学学位。 Example sentencesExamples Over a third of graduates are in jobs that do not require degree qualifications. However, this is suggestive in that it appears very few programs require writing courses be taken in order to receive the degree. I moved home with my parents after finishing my degree in order to work and save for graduate school. She wants to see the parts of the world she has missed so far and would like to continue her studies to take a Master's degree in Social Policy and Criminology. Tolstoy left the university in his third year, before ever getting his official degree. Yet, corporates look for more than degree certificates from the young men and women whom they interview for jobs. There are several routes a student can take in order to earn a degree in architecture. Last month, the board approved new undergraduate degree programs in social work and marine science. And if so, is a history or engineering degree a suitable qualification? Most other master's degree programs also require additional education before accepting applied degree holders. He got his first job on a film set while still studying for a social sciences degree at Glasgow University. In the city, she quickly latched onto the more practical applications with an art therapy qualification, leading into a social work degree. She got a job with VSO, sending doctors and nurses all over the world and went on to do a master's degree in social policy in developing countries. It was while doing his social development studies degree that he got into acting. A basic graduate degree, excellent communication skills, good grasp of English and a pleasant voice are all you need. He later earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University. I start my Master's degree officially tomorrow, though classes don't start for another month or so. He took on a dozen jobs in the 1930s, finally taking a Bachelor of Commerce degree by correspondence and qualifying as a chartered accountant. In order to earn her degree she had to undertake a media project and decided to bring to life a story close to her own family. Actually he'd just passed his finals but hadn't received his degree so couldn't officially call himself doctor yet. 5archaic mass noun Social or official rank. 〈古〉社会地位，官衔 persons of unequal degree 地位不平等的人。 Example sentencesExamples People who confirm certain degree of public status often do public talk. He was a lifelong member of St. Peter's Parish and a member of the Knights of Columbus as a third degree knight and fourth degree honorary knight. Spanish and English courtiers were carefully intermingled in order of their degrees on the steps of the throne. Synonyms social class, social status, rank, standing/position in society dated station archaic estate, condition Phrases by degrees A little at a time; gradually. 逐渐地 rivalries and prejudice were by degrees fading out 敌对和偏见逐渐淡去。 Example sentencesExamples It certainly feels as if I am relinquishing this city by degrees. The yellow fades by degrees into a kind of cream. While that may happen by degrees over time, he feels the town is not ready for more restrictions yet. His search for such connections between forms and names has led him, by degrees, to the sculpture-installation. It was only by degrees that I started to feel some kind of artistic calling. The women look friendly enough, but life is wearing them down by degrees. People are not born criminal, they grow into it by degrees. As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children. Changes take place by degrees - there are moments of violence but the security is in the status quo. In the water, the same process takes place as the child gains gradual control of balance and, by degrees, increases movement ability. Synonyms gradually, little by little, bit by bit, inch by inch, by stages, step by step, day by day, slowly, slowly but surely to a degree 1To some extent. 一定程度上 to a degree, it is possible to educate oneself 从一定程度上说，可以自学。 Example sentencesExamples So, you know, while they're friends to a degree, they're probably not above shoving the other guy out of the way. He laughed heartily and I watched in awe as his waistline was stretched to a degree that I didn't think possible. The discomfort with using rational self-interest as an underlying principle is understandable, to a degree. Certainly, we're not saying that the way things are done in the industry is wonderful, and musicians are being exploited to a degree. We benefit certainly to a degree, but how do you put a value on that? And I think when you take it further, you'll find that the media is part of the problem too, to a degree. I describe myself like you describe yourself - to a degree. Further, I am influenced to a degree, I am bound to say, by this consideration. It is possible to adjust to a degree, but it gets frustrating failing to pull of a move at critical moments. And to a degree that frustrates and confounds the left, they frequently aren't stupid. Synonyms to some extent, to a certain extent, up to a point, to a limited extent 1.1dated To a considerable extent. 〈旧〉相当地 the pressure you were put under must have been frustrating to a degree 强加在你身上的压力一定相当地令人沮丧。 Example sentencesExamples Music punctuates our everyday lives to a degree that we rarely appreciate. His analogy is insensitive to a degree that is almost unfathomable. The music is the drama, to a degree that remains unrivalled. Color, sound and geometry cooperate to a degree rarely seen in animated film, or in film at all for that matter. In many ways Cold War cultural production was ideologically driven to a degree not seen before or since. A series of climatic bouts in the ring highlight the movie's climax with realism to a degree that you want to turn your head. She had a unique talent to spot a voice and she trained several young singers to a degree where they became renowned artists. Its behaviour carried to a degree that would be hard to explain away. But when you talk to them you realise that they're informed and opinionated to a degree very rare among young Britons. He allowed me to participate in the making of these movies to a degree that not a lot of screenwriters experience. Derivatives degreeless adjective Origin Middle English (in the senses 'step', 'tier', 'rank', or 'relative state'): from Old French, based on Latin de- 'down' + gradus 'step or grade'. The source of degree is a French word based on Latin de- ‘down’ and gradus ‘step’ source of grade. Early senses of the word include ‘step, tier’, ‘rank’ and ‘relative state’. The use of degree for an academic qualification came from the medieval Mastership or Doctorate, which was attained in stages or degrees. The ‘step’ sense is found in the geometrical use (Late Middle English), measurement of heat (early 18th century), and in the expression by degrees or step by step. Rhymes absentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee noun.1 phr. Definition of degree in US English: degree noundəˈɡrēdəˈɡri 1The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present. 程度 a degree of caution is probably wise 一定程度的谨慎很可能是明智的。 a question of degree 程度问题。 Example sentencesExamples The truth is that, despite a considerable degree of open debate, critics of the regime face severe repression. I say that because to an extent, a degree of that happened on the race agenda. The matters to which you refer certainly give that direct evidence a degree of credibility. Instead it demands a considerable degree of autonomy and nurtures individualism. But the potential investigators have been, to a considerable degree, otherwise occupied. The goal of this kind of programme is for students to achieve some degree of proficiency in the language. More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy. The molecules in each state have a different degree of order or randomness about them. To my mind, what's really in doubt is the degree or amount of relevance of the text in question. To what degree do you think that's going to change the social make-up of the people who live right by the coast? Although there are no castes, there is a relatively high degree of social inequality. Nevertheless, there seems to be a considerable degree of uncertainty in the present legal proceedings. In the past, and to a large degree in the present as well, many people studied English with people who couldn't speak it. The art that the three emperors used to assert their power was based on an outstanding degree of craftsmanship directed to the service of the state. We have various levels of alert and degrees of readiness. Businesses can't function without some degree of social responsibility. Now had they made that statement, I would have credited them with some degree of intelligence. In varying degrees, they are present in this book. Other media can provide immediacy, and to varying degrees, some level of interactivity. The natural world, despite disruptions, displays a striking degree of order and regularity. Synonyms level, stage, point, rung, standard, grade, gradation, mark 2A unit of measurement of angles, one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle. 度，角度 set at an angle of 45 degrees 调到45度角。 Example sentencesExamples A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed. I'm working on memorizing the sines, cosines, and tangents of degrees of a circle in terms of pi. It was at altitude and was heading east at about 080 degrees and at an elevation angle of around 40 degrees. Not being a whiz at geometry, I stared at the pattern for quite a while trying to figure out the formula for measuring the degrees of the angles. When one band finished, the stage turned 180 degrees and the other band began shortly after. The computer showed my ball speed was 150 miles per hour, my launch angle 14 degrees and my spin rate 4,400 revolutions per minute. One antenna was rotated by 90 degrees in successive steps while data were recorded at each position. The new pier will extend 30 metres at an angle of 30 degrees to the existing pier and will provide much needed facilities for the fishing, island and tourist crafts. The curve value is the number of degrees formed by the angle of intersection of these perpendiculars. Even-spray nozzles are available with 80 degrees or 95 degrees spray angles. We turned 90 degrees for our descent, planning to head for the mainland between airways. Open at an angle of forty-five degrees twisting the bottle, slowly letting the pressure build, while holding the cork. Three hollow rays diverge at angles of 120 degrees from the central part. You must state the angle (in radians or in degrees, your choice) and the reasoning behind your answer. The needle should enter the skin at 30 degrees and be directed parallel to the groove. A camera cannot capture a 360 degree panorama or the emotion you feel from direct experience. The sky was a very pale blue colour, with one sun a few degrees off of the direct center. Those men also divided the complete circle into 360 degrees by taking the angle of the triangle as their fundamental unit and dividing this into 60 sub-units. The direction of landing is what is critical here as landing a perfect trick requires the player to land at a perfect 180 degrees to their angle of takeoff. Be sure your cuts are at an angle of exactly 45 degrees. 3A unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness. 温度，密度，硬度 water boils at 100 degrees Celsius 水在摄氏100度时沸腾。（Symbol：°）（符号：°）。 Example sentencesExamples At constant depth, the temperature dropped almost twenty degrees. If they stop moving altogether, the temperature drops to Absolute Zero which is - 273 degrees Centigrade. After having cooled off for many billions of years, the temperature of this radiation is just a few degrees above absolute zero. Powered by a mighty nuclear fusion reactor with a core temperature of 100 million degrees that explosively vaporises the chilled liquid hydrogen propellant They were also careful not to breathe from the regulators in the air, passing freezing condensate from their mouths into second stages that were several degrees below zero. Try an oven temperature around 175 degrees Celsius. You may have heard that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade. The workers were forced to manufacture radiator parts in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius for between 12 to 20 hours a day. I started to get the chills on the descent despite the 95 degree heat. Australian laws state all cheese has to be made of pasteurised milk where the milk is heated to around 70 degrees in order to kill bacteria. In Thailand I was hit by waves of heat of more than 30 degrees centigrade immediately after stepping off the plane after a four-hour journey. Most incandescent lamps operate with a color temperature of approximately 2900 degrees Kelvin. When researchers bumped up temperatures in a simulated office from 68 to 77 degrees, keyboard errors fell by over 40 percent. If you have a meat thermometer, check that the internal temperature reaches 72 degrees Celsius. This is the proportion by which the rate of a chemical reaction is raised by an increase in temperature of 10 degrees on the Celsius scale. However, we borrow the basic measurement scale from physics and we measure the photographic colour temperature in degrees Kelvin. The parasite typically needs an ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and an altitude of less than 2,000 metres to survive. December through to February are some of the best months to visit this tropical country, and the average temperature is 31 degrees centigrade. The alloys used in medical imaging superconduct only at supercold temperatures, about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The memory signal could not be detected at temperatures above 75 degrees Celsius, where the charges within the domains behave differently. 3.1in combination Each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity. 烧伤度（通常是三度）。见FIRST-DEGREE，SECOND-DEGREE，THIRD-DEGREE See first-degree, second-degree, third-degree 3.2often in combination A legal grade of crime or offense, especially murder. 〈主北美〉（尤指谋杀）罪行轻重度 second-degree murder 二级谋杀罪。 criminal conduct in the first degree Example sentencesExamples She was indicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on the charge of murder in the first degree. After he turned down the plea bargain, a grand jury indicted Webb on fourth degree criminal contempt. A person is guilty of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree when he restrains another person under circumstances which expose the latter to a risk of serious physical injury. His new wife is being held as a material witness to first-degree murder. There has been no cross examination of the Claimant with a view to establishing what degree of contributory negligence should be attributed to him. If he is convicted of first-degree murder, that would also kick in whether there are special circumstances. A person is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree if he or she intentionally abducts another person under circumstances not amounting to kidnapping in the first degree. He was arrested that night and charged with 1st degree murder. For the purposes of the criminal law there are degrees of negligence: and a very high degree of negligence is required to be proved before the felony is established. English criminal law has two degrees of homicide: murder and manslaughter. He was actually convicted of 2nd degree murder, reduced on appeal to manslaughter. 3.3often in combination A step in direct genealogical descent. 亲等 second-degree relatives 二级谋杀罪。 Example sentencesExamples Everyone on the same level is the same degree of cousin and is in the same generation. Who are relatives within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity? Blood relationship in the direct line (i.e., between father and daughter, grandfather and granddaughter, etc.) invalidates marriage regardless of the degree of relationship. 3.4Music A position in a musical scale, counting upward from the tonic or fundamental note. 〔乐〕音级 the lowered third degree of the scale 音阶降低的第三音。 Example sentencesExamples A minor, therefore, is related to a major key with its tonic on C, the mediant or third degree of the scale of A minor. The reason that this chord is the best is because it contains the leading note (7th degree). I achieved this not by starting the inverted form on the subdominant degree, but by modifying its tail at measure 47. 3.5Mathematics The class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present. 〔数〕次，次数 an equation of the second degree 二次方程。 Example sentencesExamples In 1593 Roomen had proposed a problem which involved solving an equation of degree 45. The first person to claim that equations of degree 5 could not be solved algebraically was Ruffini. The degree of the final equation resulting from any number of complete equations in the same number of unknowns, is equal to the product of the degrees of the equations. In particular he worked on Galois theory, ideals and equations of the fifth degree. The algebraic solution of general equations of degree greater than four is always impossible. Bent over their computers, thirty savants were absorbed in equations of the ninety-fifth degree. 3.6Grammar Any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative. 〔语法〕（形容词或副词的）级 Example sentencesExamples In Latin, however, one may also use the comparative degree to compare an entity with the norm or the average. Here the superlative degree makes sense because we are comparing this year's crop to the crops from all earlier years Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse). The comparative and superlative degrees in adjectives are shown in two ways. 3.7archaic A thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row. 〈古〉层级 4An academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course of study, or conferred as an honor on a distinguished person. 学位 a degree in zoology 动物学学位。 Example sentencesExamples She got a job with VSO, sending doctors and nurses all over the world and went on to do a master's degree in social policy in developing countries. And if so, is a history or engineering degree a suitable qualification? There are several routes a student can take in order to earn a degree in architecture. Last month, the board approved new undergraduate degree programs in social work and marine science. He got his first job on a film set while still studying for a social sciences degree at Glasgow University. Most other master's degree programs also require additional education before accepting applied degree holders. He took on a dozen jobs in the 1930s, finally taking a Bachelor of Commerce degree by correspondence and qualifying as a chartered accountant. Yet, corporates look for more than degree certificates from the young men and women whom they interview for jobs. It was while doing his social development studies degree that he got into acting. I moved home with my parents after finishing my degree in order to work and save for graduate school. In the city, she quickly latched onto the more practical applications with an art therapy qualification, leading into a social work degree. Over a third of graduates are in jobs that do not require degree qualifications. In order to earn her degree she had to undertake a media project and decided to bring to life a story close to her own family. I start my Master's degree officially tomorrow, though classes don't start for another month or so. However, this is suggestive in that it appears very few programs require writing courses be taken in order to receive the degree. Tolstoy left the university in his third year, before ever getting his official degree. She wants to see the parts of the world she has missed so far and would like to continue her studies to take a Master's degree in Social Policy and Criminology. A basic graduate degree, excellent communication skills, good grasp of English and a pleasant voice are all you need. He later earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University. Actually he'd just passed his finals but hadn't received his degree so couldn't officially call himself doctor yet. 4.1 A rank in an order of Freemasonry. 共济会职务 5archaic Social or official rank. 〈古〉社会地位，官衔 persons of unequal degree 地位不平等的人。 Example sentencesExamples Spanish and English courtiers were carefully intermingled in order of their degrees on the steps of the throne. People who confirm certain degree of public status often do public talk. He was a lifelong member of St. Peter's Parish and a member of the Knights of Columbus as a third degree knight and fourth degree honorary knight. Synonyms social class, social status, rank, position in society, standing in society Phrases by degrees A little at a time; gradually. 逐渐地 rivalries and prejudice were by degrees fading out 敌对和偏见逐渐淡去。 Example sentencesExamples The women look friendly enough, but life is wearing them down by degrees. His search for such connections between forms and names has led him, by degrees, to the sculpture-installation. As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children. The yellow fades by degrees into a kind of cream. It certainly feels as if I am relinquishing this city by degrees. While that may happen by degrees over time, he feels the town is not ready for more restrictions yet. Changes take place by degrees - there are moments of violence but the security is in the status quo. People are not born criminal, they grow into it by degrees. It was only by degrees that I started to feel some kind of artistic calling. In the water, the same process takes place as the child gains gradual control of balance and, by degrees, increases movement ability. Synonyms gradually, little by little, bit by bit, inch by inch, by stages, step by step, day by day, slowly, slowly but surely to a degree 1To some extent. 一定程度上 to a degree, it is possible to educate oneself 从一定程度上说，可以自学。 Example sentencesExamples And to a degree that frustrates and confounds the left, they frequently aren't stupid. The discomfort with using rational self-interest as an underlying principle is understandable, to a degree. It is possible to adjust to a degree, but it gets frustrating failing to pull of a move at critical moments. Further, I am influenced to a degree, I am bound to say, by this consideration. I describe myself like you describe yourself - to a degree. We benefit certainly to a degree, but how do you put a value on that? So, you know, while they're friends to a degree, they're probably not above shoving the other guy out of the way. He laughed heartily and I watched in awe as his waistline was stretched to a degree that I didn't think possible. And I think when you take it further, you'll find that the media is part of the problem too, to a degree. Certainly, we're not saying that the way things are done in the industry is wonderful, and musicians are being exploited to a degree. Synonyms to some extent, to a certain extent, up to a point, to a limited extent 1.1dated To a considerable extent. 〈旧〉相当地 the pressure you were put under must have been frustrating to a degree 强加在你身上的压力一定相当地令人沮丧。 Example sentencesExamples Its behaviour carried to a degree that would be hard to explain away. He allowed me to participate in the making of these movies to a degree that not a lot of screenwriters experience. She had a unique talent to spot a voice and she trained several young singers to a degree where they became renowned artists. Color, sound and geometry cooperate to a degree rarely seen in animated film, or in film at all for that matter. In many ways Cold War cultural production was ideologically driven to a degree not seen before or since. The music is the drama, to a degree that remains unrivalled. A series of climatic bouts in the ring highlight the movie's climax with realism to a degree that you want to turn your head. Music punctuates our everyday lives to a degree that we rarely appreciate. But when you talk to them you realise that they're informed and opinionated to a degree very rare among young Britons. His analogy is insensitive to a degree that is almost unfathomable. Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘step’, ‘tier’, ‘rank’, or ‘relative state’): from Old French, based on Latin de- ‘down’ + gradus ‘step or grade’. noun.1 phr.
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