Definition of degree

"degree" in the noun sense

1. degree, grade, level

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

"a moderate grade of intelligence"

"a high level of care is required"

"it is all a matter of degree"

2. degree, level, stage, point

a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

"a remarkable degree of frankness"

"at what stage are the social sciences?"

3. academic degree, degree

an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

"he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude"

4. degree, arcdegree

a measure for arcs and angles

"there are 360 degrees in a circle"

5. degree

the highest power of a term or variable

6. degree

a unit of temperature on a specified scale

"the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"

7. degree

the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime

"murder in the second degree"

"a second degree burn"

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Quotations for degree

Observe degree, priority, and place. [ William Shakespeare ]

And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound.
And curs of low degree. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

Alas by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can never a transport know,
That never feels a pain. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

Study thyself; what rank or what degree
The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. [ John Dryden ]

All great men are in some degree inspired. [ Cicero ]

Infinite in degree, and endless in duration. [ Franklin ]

Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence. [ Lavater ]

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is necessary. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. [ Montaigne ]

Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it. [ Vauvenargues ]

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed. [ C. M. Yonge ]

An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius. [ Dugald Stewart ]

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The variation of excellence among men is rather in degree than in kind. [ Bancroft ]

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. [ Boileau ]

A certain degree of soul is indispensable to save us the expense of salt. [ Ben Jonson ]

Rejoicing at men's misfortunes is, in a degree, dancing at their funerals. [ Proverb ]

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

All men are fools, and notwithstanding all their care, they differ but in degree. [ Boileau ]

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. [ Dante ]

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. [ Amiel ]

Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works even be it against his will. [ Goethe ]

You who forget your friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob. [ Thackeray ]

One's duty as a gentleman should never interfere with one's pleasures in the slightest degree. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. [ Suckling ]

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. [ Dr. Watts ]

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. [ Aime-Martin ]

He that condemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. [ L'Estrange ]

The most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. [ Tuckerman ]

Nations, like individuals, are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors. [ Bovee ]

No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. [ Burns ]

The first degree of folly is to hold one's self wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. [ J. G. Holland ]

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. [ Chesterfield ]

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. [ Burke ]

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]

The least degree of ambiguity which leaves the mind in suspense as to the meaning ought to be avoided with the greatest care. [ Blair ]

Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man. [ Dugald Stewart ]

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. [ Bayard Taylor ]

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. [ Addison ]

Commonsense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it: the difference is, therefore, in the degree, not nature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. [ F. Atterbury ]

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. [ Bible ]

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded. [ Montesquieu ]

In destroying the predisposition to anger, science of all kinds is useful; but the mathematics possess the property in the most eminent degree. [ Dr. Rush ]

Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]

Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]

That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. [ Whately ]

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. [ Hazlitt ]

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]

Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us. [ Richter ]

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. [ Hazlitt ]

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. [ Samuel Warren ]

The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour - never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. [ Sismondi ]

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and fortune. [ John Knox ]

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. [ Thomas Paine ]

Pale, Pallid, or Wan? All these terms denote an absence of color, but vary in degree, pallid rising upon pale, and wan upon pallid. Paleness in the countenance may be temporary, but pallidness and wanness are caused by sickness, hunger, or fatigue, and are of longer duration. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox, - because they meet no one to give it to them. [ Greville ]

Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, - a general preparation for whatever species of the art the student may afterwards choose for his more particular application. The power of drawing, modelling, and using colors is very properly called the language of the art. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn, We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. [ Thomas Starr King ]

An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, carries a pencil constantly in his hand, and, unperceived, marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore instantly on meeting that person or thing again, knows what kind and degree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience. [ John Foster ]

All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]

Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts, - the ifirst and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind, - just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference. [ Coleridge ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]

The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]

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Words within the letters of degree

2 letter words in degree (1 word)

3 letter words in degree (4 words)

4 letter words in degree (5 words)

5 letter words in degree (2 words)

6 letter words in degree (1 word)

Words containing the sequence degree

Words that start with degree (3 words)

Words with degree in them (2 words)

Words that end with degree (2 words)

Word Growth involving degree

Shorter words in degree

re

Longer words containing degree

degreeless

degrees nondegrees

nondegree nondegrees