degree – English noun declension

English noun forms of degree

Noun: degree
Singulardegree
Pluraldegrees

Sample Sentences

  • She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
  • A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
  • Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.
  • 212 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 100 degrees Celsius.
  • Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
  • A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
  • The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.
  • The Galois field #92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(125)#61;#92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(5³) has degree 3 over its subfield #92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(5).
  • The chazzan-artist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Eastern Europe where the chazzan reached the highest degree as an artist, casting from himself all those tasks historically associated with his office which drew him down to the station of beadle and servitor of the community. [1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 181:]
  • And they axed hym ſayinge: Maſter / we knowe that thou ſayest / and teacheſt ryght / nether conſidereſt thou eny mãnes degre / but teacheſt the waye of god truely. [1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xx:[21], folio cx, recto:]
  • But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan,
  • VVho was then a Gentleman.
  • Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
  • Then to haue this difference in degrees:
  • The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
  • So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […] [1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:]
  • Louis created the École militaire in Paris in 1751, in which 500 scholarships were designated for noblemen able to prove four degrees of noble status. [2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 140:]
  • If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. [1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:]
  • To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
  • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Then there are the sums that Abramovich would be permitted to invest within the parameters of the profit and sustainability rules – £105m over a rolling three-year period. That, plainly, has stopped and so, to repeat, it is imperative that the transfer of ownership happens with a degree of speed. [March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:]

Etymology

From Middle English degre, borrowed from Old French degré (French: degré), itself from Latin gradus, with the prefix de-. See: Middle English Nouns 'degre', Latin Nouns 'gradus'.