Word Finder - determine

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To set the boundaries or limits of.

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To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.

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To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.

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To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.

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The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.

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To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.

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The court has determined the cause.

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To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.

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I determined to go home at once.

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To define or limit by adding a differentia.

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To bring to an end; to finish.

She couldn't determine if she'd won this round or not.

She would determine which case had the best chance of success.

Computers can determine when to plant seed and even what to plant.

I can determine that.

Lana looked up at the bridge, trying to determine which way it was to shore.

And how did you determine that?

Darian looked at Xander, unable to determine what game the Original Being played.

We're working to determine how large a part it represents.

One I can determine, he said at last.

Don't let anyone else determine them, he said.

Unable to determine what his emotions towards her were, he needed to experience what he did whenever he was inside her.

We created a file on you, so we could monitor and determine whose mate you became, if you did at all.

Something moved up in the trees, but it was impossible to determine what it was in the shadows.

We cannot determine the chemical composition of soil simply by touching it.

He paced again and rubbed the back of his neck, unable to determine another fate possible.

The ability for you to determine a traitor from a loyalist is one of your most valuable talents.

Lori nodded assent and Alex set out to determine if anything needed to be done before they left.

He was quiet a moment, and finally she looked up to determine his response.

They cannot destroy me when I will determine which world survives.

She followed his gaze as he put her down to determine what had startled him.

By now, more than two feet was packed against the door, though the exact depth was difficult to determine in the wind-driven drifts.

She froze at the faint voice, unable to determine if it was the demon who spoke.

It wasn't a pensive silence, but more of a silent struggle to determine how much they revealed.

Deidre studied him, unable to determine what was going on with him and the human he'd kept in Hell.

Unable to determine what he felt, he did want to at least see her.

Academy as part of an investigation with the object of ascertaining the length of the degree near the equator and near the pole respectively so as to determine the figure of the earth.

It is not easy to determine whether the book is all from the same author.

We have next to determine the value of x in terms of the action between one particle and another.

As an experiment on the angle of contact only gives us the difference of the surface-tensions at the solid surface, we cannot determine their actual value.

Thus we search vainly in the Avesta itself for any precise data to determine the period of its composition or the place where it arose.

The "analogy of faith," as a rule of interpretation, he greatly limits, and teaches that it can never afford of itself the explanation of words, but only determine the choice among their possible meanings.

Physical surroundings rather than latitude determine the character of the flora.

In this experiment a great noise was produced, corresponding to a loss of energy, and Joule endeavoured to determine the amount of energy necessary to produce an equal amount of sound from the string of a violoncello and to apply a corresponding correction.

During the first week of April Convocation sat almost from day to day to determine questions of fact and law in relation to Catherine's marriage with Henry as affected by her previous marriage with his brother Arthur.

His difficulty consisted in the fact that, like all Anglicans of the 16th century, he recognized no right of private judgment, but believed that the state, as represented by monarchy, parliament and Convocation, had an absolute right to determine the national faith and to impose it on every Englishman.

Locke half playfully touches on certain monsters, with respect to which it is difficult to determine whether they ought to be called men.

It is necessary to determine if the modification be a simple change that might have occurred in independent cases, in fact if it be a multiradial apocentricity, or if it involved intricate and precisely combined anatomical changes that we could not expect to occur twice independently; that is to say, if it be a uniradial apocentricity.

Thence a commissipn was to issue to persons named therein to determine the appeal definitely.

The study of simple organisms, many of which consist of nothing but a little mass of protoplasm, exhibiting a very rudimentary degree of differentiation, so far as our methods enable us to determine any at all, shows that the duties of existence can be discharged in the absence of any cell-wall.

The shortness of the summer, the deficiency of drainage and the depth to which the soil freezes in winter, are the circumstances which determine the characteristic features of the vegetation of the tundras.

Its head is the tsar; but although he makes and annuls all appointments, he does not determine questions of dogmatic theology.

These intersections determine the centres of the semicircles CC which form the ends of the respective knuckles.

He initiated in 1866 the spectroscopic observation of sunspots; applied Doppler's principle in 1869 to determine the radial velocities of the chromospheric gases; and successfully investigated the chemistry of the sun from 1872 onward.

This name is twice translated "adder," but as nothing is told of it beyond its poisonous character and the intractability of its disposition, it is impossible accurately to determine the species.

How shall we determine the relative weight and importance of different kinds of relevant evidence?

It is more difficult to determine when Paul can have visited the island and left Titus behind him.

We will soon go back to the oncologist to determine they best time to start systemic chemo.

An account of his Welsh campaigns is given in the Vitae duorum Off arum, but it is difficult to determine how far the stories there given have an historical basis.

To determine N recourse must be made to Cauchy's formula of dispersion (q.v.), n =A+B/X2+C/A4+...

The original source is not easy to determine.