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1 N‑COUNT You use degree to indicate the extent to which something happens or is the case, or the amount which something is felt. □ [+ of ] These man-made barriers will ensure a very high degree of protection. □ [+ of ] Politicians have used television with varying degrees of success. ● PHRASE If something has a degree of a particular quality, it has a small but significant amount of that quality. □  Their wages do, however, allow them a degree of independence.

2 N‑COUNT A degree is a unit of measurement that is used to measure temperatures. It is often written as °, for example 23°. □  It's over 80 degrees outside.

3 N‑COUNT A degree is a unit of measurement that is used to measure angles, and also longitude and latitude. It is often written as °, for example 23°. □  It was pointing outward at an angle of 45 degrees.

4 N‑COUNT A degree at a university or college is a course of study that you take there, or the qualification that you get when you have passed the course. □  He took a master's degree in economics at Yale. □  …the first year of a degree course.

5 → see also first-degree , second-degree , third-degree

6 PHRASE If something happens by degrees , it happens slowly and gradually. □  The crowd in Robinson's Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees.

7 PHRASE You use expressions such as to some degree , to a large degree , or to a certain degree in order to indicate that something is partly true, but not entirely true. [VAGUENESS ] □  These statements are, to some degree, all correct.

8 PHRASE You use expressions such as to what degree and to the degree that when you are discussing how true a statement is, or in what ways it is true. [VAGUENESS ] □  To what degree would you say you had control over things that went on? COLLOCATIONS degree NOUN

1

adjective + degree : great, high, large; certain, considerable, fair, reasonable; various, varying

5

adjective + degree : postgraduate, undergraduate; honorary; first-class, second-class

verb + degree : gain, obtain, receive SYNONYMS degree NOUN 1

extent:Growing up with him soon made me realise the extent of his determination.

amount:I still do a certain amount of work for them.

level:The exercises are marked according to their level of difficulty.

proportion:A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.

de|hu|man|ize /diː hjuː məna I z/ (dehumanizes , dehumanizing , dehumanized ) in BRIT, also use dehumanise VERB If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence. □ [V n] The years of civil war have dehumanized all of us.

de|hu|midi|fi|er /diːhjuːm I d I fa I ə ^r / (dehumidifiers ) N‑COUNT A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.

de|hy|drate /diː ha I dre I t, -ha I dre I t/ (dehydrates , dehydrating , dehydrated )

1 VERB [usu passive] When something such as food is dehydrated , all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it. □ [be V -ed] Normally specimens have to be dehydrated. ●  de|hy|drat|ed ADJ □  Dehydrated meals, soups and sauces contain a lot of salt.

2 VERB If you dehydrate or if something dehydrates you, you lose too much water from your body so that you feel weak or ill. □ [V ] People can dehydrate in weather like this. □ [V n] Alcohol quickly dehydrates your body. ●  de|hy|dra|tion /diː ha I dre I ʃ ^ə n/ N‑UNCOUNT □  …a child who's got diarrhoea and is suffering from dehydration.