Degrees is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEGREES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DEGREE, a graduation on a scale
• the amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present
• a 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
• a unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness
• each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity.
• a legal grade of crime or offence, especially murder
• a step in direct genealogical descent
• a position in a musical scale, counting upwards from the tonic or fundamental note
• the class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present
• any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative.
• a rank in an order of freemasonry.
• a thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row.
• an 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
• social or official rank
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one of a series of stages

Words related to DEGREES

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How to use DEGREES in a sentence

• When she looked at it a few minutes later it was thirty degrees below zero.
• Keeping the arms always forty-five degrees apart, it is possible to read the signals at a considerable distance.
• By degrees we submit, and are reconciled to our fate, like patients to the physician, or prisoners in the condemned cell.
• Painting is many degrees further removed than sculpture from dependence on the body in the fulness of its physical proportions.
• Since there are degrees of love and wisdom, there are also degrees of heat and light.
• On the morning of the 5th there was the presentation of degrees.
• These folk songs have a strong similarity to Scotch and Irish songs, owing to the absence of the fourth and seventh degrees of the scale.
• To soften, therefore, their compliance by degrees, they began by giving the freedom of the city to such of the Italian states as had not revolted.
• It is agreed, that this prince had a violent passion for his second or third cousin, Elgiva, whom he married, though within the degrees prohibited by the canons.
• Left to their own devices, they would have passed a most uncomfortable if not a perilous night, for the mercury stood at many degrees below zero.
• At noon our latitude observed to the South was 15 degrees 44 minutes 16 seconds.
• The cape is in 13 degrees 44 minutes South, and 126 degrees 53 minutes 50 seconds East.
• We found a long extent of foul ground, with a dry reef near its outer end, extending off two miles in a South 33 degrees East direction from the South-East extreme.
• The range of the thermometer, taken in various parts of the port, was at night from 49 degrees to 52 degrees, and at noon from 58 degrees to 64 degrees.
• The third island, on which the natives were, bore W 4 degrees S one and a half or two miles distant, and the centres of the two northern ones N 40 degrees and N 15 degrees W.
• The heat of the day was excessive, the thermometer 80 degrees at sunset.
• This must suggest to us that the willingness to co-operate admits of degrees, and the relations of communities to one another to have stability must reflect these degrees.
• The range of thermometer is now from 55 degrees to 85 degrees.
• The mean temperature at day-light is from 40 degrees to 45 degrees, and at noon from 55 degrees to 60 degrees.
• In my charts it is laid down in 8 degrees 10 minutes.
• It ascends so abruptly from Kearney Street that it is inaccessible to any kind of vehicle, the slope being at any angle little short of forty-five degrees.
• The 20th we were in latitude 19 degrees 37 minutes and kept close on a wind to get sight of the land again, but could not yet see it.
• Salleron has adopted for the normal pressure of highly sparkling wines five atmospheres at the temperature of the cellar, which does not exceed 10 degrees.

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