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Definition: Determining |
DeterminingAdjective1. Having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "determining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: DeterminingSynonyms: crucial (adj), deciding(a) (adj), determinant (adj), determinative (adj), determining(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Determining |
| English words defined with "determining": determining factor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "determining": Predestinative. (references) |
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 | Vernon Burns at twilight - determining initial azimuth Astro party of Lt.(j.g.) Albert Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Texas Instruments TI4100 GPS receiver Determining latitude and longitude simultaneously. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Collecting fish by Hawaiian style spear for determining stomach contents. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | A diver equipped with underwater tape recorder, wetsuit, watch for determining dive time. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Figure 41. Apstein instrument and graph for determining the depth of horizontal ly towed nets. First noted by Carl Apstein in 1909, this instrument was used for many years to determine the depth of net at various towing speeds and amount of tension on the towing line. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 43. A piston pipette used in determining the amount of plankton in a given volume of water. Used by Victor Hensen in 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Determining if turtle nest present and counting the number of eggs. This was a successful investigation. Green turtles nest on Helen's Reef routinely. Credit: Small World. |  | Measuring crop residues. Farmers use a line-transect method of determining the percentage of ground covered by crop residues for soil protection. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | A no-till farmer in Cherokee County uses a line-transect method of determining the percentage of ground covered by crop residues for soil protection. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Scientists determining percent seed germination under controlled conditions. Manhattan Plant Materials Center, Manhattan, Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | When the Commission of Enquiry has fully considered the complaint, it shall prepare a report embodying its findings on all questions of fact relevant to determining the issue between the parties and containing such recommendations as it may think proper as to the steps which should be taken to meet the complaint and the time within which they should be taken. (reference) |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He asked, what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense |
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Health | It also is not as accurate in determining when hemorrhage is present. (references) | |
Detecting and determining the significance of melanoma tumor antigens. (references) | ||
Determining antibiotic susceptibility patterns among isolates of Burkholderia mallei. (references) | ||
Business | Financing however, is the determining factor. (references) | |
Price is the determining factor of what brand to purchase. (references) | ||
Poland lacks clear regulations determining the issuance of the declaration. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Syria | The Emergency Law and Penal Code articles dealing with crimes against state security allow the Government broad discretion in determining what constitutes illegal expression. (references) |
Greece | The police conducted many large-scale sweeps of neighborhoods populated by immigrants, temporarily detaining large numbers of individuals while determining their residence status. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | The Government cooperates with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Red Cross in determining refugee status, and has not returned persons to a country where they fear persecution. (references) | |
Economic History | Canada | Population size should not be the soul indicator used for determining market potential. (references) |
Switzerland | The same deductions are allowed in determining taxable income as for a Swiss corporation. (references) | |
Syria | Organized unions do not seem to have a role in determining receptivity to foreign investment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | In May the Government dropped all charges after determining that the confiscated documents were not classified. (references) |
Turkey | However, this rarely occurs and then only after a separate case determining the legality of the evidence is resolved. (references) | |
Turkey | Prosecutors also are charged with determining which law has been broken and objectively presenting the facts to the court. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | In civic areas where religion is a determining criterion, such as the religious courts and centers of education, non-Jewish institutions routinely receive less state support than their Jewish counterparts. (references) |
Political Economy | HAITI | Consumer prices are governed by supply and demand, though the small Haitian market is imperfect for determining some prices. (references) |
Western Sahara | A complicated formula for determining voter eligibility ultimately was devised and, in August 1994, MINURSO personnel began to hold identification sessions for voter applicants. (references) | |
Political Rights | Swaziland | In 1996 the King appointed a 30-member commission with the stated purpose of examining the suspended 1968 Constitution, carrying out civic education, determining citizens' wishes regarding a future system of government, making appropriate recommendations on a new constitution, and drafting a new constitution. (references) |
Trade | Eq. Guinea | Supplier credit, therefore, is often a determining factor in a competitive sale. (references) |
Argentina | The buyer and seller share responsibility in determining what product standard is applicable. (references) | |
Travel | Liberia | Although the Department terminated the authorized departure of U.S. Embassy personnel in non-emergency positions from Liberia on May 31, 2001, U.S. citizens in Liberia should carefully review their own personal security situation in determining whether to remain in the country, U.S. citizens should be aware that the ability of the U.S. Embassy to provide direct assistance to U.S. citizens outside of the Monrovia area is severely limited. (references) |
Women | Swaziland | Couples often marry in both civil and traditional ceremonies, creating problems in determining which set of rules applies to the marriage and to subsequent questions of child custody and inheritance in the event of divorce or death. (references) |
Uzbekistan | While the lack of reporting prevented the authors from determining the number of cases annually, the study concluded that domestic violence was widespread and that the Government had failed to combat or even acknowledge the problem. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Azerbaijan | Unions do not effectively participate in determining wage levels. (references) |
Vietnam | Since the country began moving away from central planning, market forces have played an increasingly important role in determining wages. (references) | |
Nepal | On March 15 the Government averted a strike threatened by hotel employees by determining that hotel employees fall under the Essential Services Act that proscribes strikes. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence. "There is no art," says Shakespeare, foolish man, "To read the mind's construction in the face." The physiognomists his portrait scan, And say: "How little wisdom here we trace! He knew his face disclosed his mind and heart, So, in his own defence, denied our art." Lavatar Shunk |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The best as well as fairest mode of determining whether from any just considerations a particular interest ought to receive protection would be to submit the question singly for deliberation. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Sanitary laws, pure food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are intimate parts of the very business of justice and legal efficiency. |
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| "Determining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.70% of the time. "Determining" is used about 1,279 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.7% | 1,224 | 6,374 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.98% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.16% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,279 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "determining": Complementarity Determining Regions ♦ determining factor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "determining": testis-determining. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "determining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bepalend (defining). (various references) | |
Chinese | 确定 (Certain, Confirmative, Definite, Determinate, Determine, deterministic). (various references) | |
Danish | det antal hestekraefter,der skal til for at loefte borestrengen op af borehullet kaldes ofte krogeffekten,idet beregningen af de fornoedne hestekraefter sker ved at man fastslaar vaegten,krogen belastes med,og multiplicerer dette tal med krogens loeftehas (as the horsepower calculation is made by determining the weight on the hook multiplied by the lift velocity of the hook), determinerende oplevelse (determining experience), determinerende tendens (determining tendency), den nuvaerende vaerdiansaettelsespraksis (methods at present used in determining the value for customs purposes), metoder til bestemmelse af atmosfaerens blyindhold:emissionsspektroskopi,atomabsorptionsspektrofotometri,Roentgenfluorescensanalyse,neutronaktivering,aktivering med ladede partikler (and activation using charged particles, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, fluorescence radiation, neutron activation, techniques used for determining atmospheric lead content; emission spectrography), endoskopisk instrument til koensbestemmelse af kyllinger (endoscopic instrument for determining the sex of chicks), forhold der bestemmer tiden ude af drift (activities determining downtime), fra hvis indgivelsesdag prioritetsfristen begynder at løbe (starting point for determining priority), massespektrometer til måling af isotopforhold (mass spectrometer for determining isotope ratios), ved fastsaettelsen af indgangspriserne nedsaettes priserne med... (for the purpose of determining entry prices, the price quotations shall be reduced by...), middelkornstoerrelsen kendetegnes ved et tal,der fremkommer enten ved sammenligning med referencetavler for kornstoerrelse eller ved optælling til bestemmelse af det gennemsnitlige antal korn pr.overfladeenhed (generally obtained by comparison with reference diagrams to measure the grain size, or by counting and determining the average number of grains per unit of area, the average grain size is characterized by an index), Na+-K+ ATPase-aktiviteten er et nyttigt kendetegn ved diagnose af blyforgiftning (the determining of Na+-K+-ATPase activity of the red corpuscles is a useful sign in the diagnosis of lead poisoning), positionsteksterne og afsnits- eller kapitelbestemmelserne er afgoerende ved tariferingen (the terms of the headings and any relative Section or Chapter Notes are paramount, they are the first consideration in determining classification), system som er i stand til at bestemme tidsintervaller (system capable of determining intervals of time), undersoegelserne over de biologiske forstyrrelser, der er foraarsaget af straaling, beskaeftiger sig med radioaktivitetens indflydelse paa arterne (studies undertaken in regard to biological perturbations caused by radiation exposure focuse on determining the effects of radioactivity on species), harmonisering af skatteberegningsreglerne (harmonisation of the rules determining the tax base, harmonising the tax base). (various references) | |
Dutch | bepalend (defining). (various references) | |
Esperanto | difina (defining). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bundin (defining). (various references) | |
Finnish | määräävä (determinative). (various references) | |
French | déterminant (determinant). (various references) | |
German | Beendigung (completion, ending, terminating, termination). (various references) | |
Greek | φασματογράφος μάζας για ισοτοπικές αναλογίες (mass spectrometer for determining isotope ratios), ο προσδιορισμός της δραστικότητας της Να+-Κ+-ΑΤΡ-άσης των ερυθρών αιμοσφαιρίων είναι ένα χρήσιμο στοιχείο για τη διάγνωση της δηλητηρία-σης (the determining of Na+-K+-ATPase activity of the red corpuscles is a useful sign in the diagnosis of lead poisoning), οι μέθοδοι που χρησιμοποιούνται επί του παρόντος για τον καθορισμό της δασμολογητέας αξίας (methods at present used in determining the value for customs purposes), το κεíμενο των κλάσεων και των Σημειώσεων των Tμημάτων ή των κεφαλαíων εíναι ισχυρóτερο,για κατάταξης,απó κάθε άλλη θεώρηση (they are the first consideration in determining classification), τεχνικές για τον προσδιορισμό της περιεκτικότητας σε μόλυβδο της ατμόσφαιρας:φασματομετρία εκπομπής,φασματοφωτομετρία ατομικής απορρό-φ (techniques used for determining atmospheric lead content; emission spectrography), αφετηρία για την προθεσμία προτεραιότητας (starting point for determining priority), δραστηριότητες καθορίζουσες τον χρόνο εκτός λειτουργίας (activities determining downtime), η ισχύς που απαιτείται για να ανεβάσουμε στην επιφάνεια τη διατρη-τική στήλη,ονομάζεται συχνά "ισχύς αγκίστρου".Ο υπολογισμός αυτής της ισχ (as the horsepower calculation is made by determining the weight on the hook multiplied by the lift velocity of the hook), ένα σημαντικό κέρδισμα χρόνου στον προσδιορισμό μηχανικών ιδιοτήτων μακράς διάρκειας (a considerable gain of time in determining the long-time mechanical properties), μελέτες γύρω από τις βιολογικές διαταραχές που οφείλονται στην ακτινοβόληση,αφορούν κυρίως τις συνέπειες της ραδιενέργειας στα διάφορα ε (studies undertaken in regard to biological perturbations caused by radiation exposure focuse on determining the effects of radioactivity on species), μεγάλος αριθμός κύκλων φορτίου για τον προσδιορισμό της αντοχής σε κόπωση (a large number of load cycles for determining the fatigue strength), γενοσκόπιο (endoscopic instrument for determining the sex of chicks), για τον καθορισμό των τιμών εισόδου,οι τιμές μειώνονται... (for the purpose of determining entry prices, the price quotations shall be reduced by...), σύστημα κατάλληλο να καθορίζει χρονικά διαστήματα (system capable of determining intervals of time), εναρμόνιση των κανόνων της φορολογικής βάσης (harmonisation of the rules determining the tax base, harmonising the tax base). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meghatározó (determinative, decisive). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penentuan (act of determining, determination). (various references) | |
Italian | fissato (defining), determinato (defining), definito (defining). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 相手次第 (determining an attitude or response according to the opponent), 口裏 (determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くちうら (determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning, gathering from another's words), あいてしだい (determining an attitude or response according to the opponent). (various references) | |
Korean | 결정 (Conclusive, Crucial, Crystal, Crystallizing, Deciding, Decision, Definitive, Determinant, irrevocable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eterminingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | data a partir da qual se conta o plazo de prioridade (starting point for determining priority), tendência determinante (determining tendency), técnicas utilizadas para a dosagem do chumbo atmosférico:espectrografia de emissão,espectrofotometria de absorção atómica,fluorescência dos raios X,activação neutrónica,activação por partículas carregadas (and activation using charged particles, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, fluorescence radiation, neutron activation, techniques used for determining atmospheric lead content; emission spectrography), sexascópio (endoscopic instrument for determining the sex of chicks), para a determinação dos preços de entrada,serão deduzidos às cotações... (for the purpose of determining entry prices, the price quotations shall be reduced by...), os termos das posições e das Notas de Secções ou de Capítulos prevalecem,para determinar a classificação,sobre quaisquer outras considerações (i.e., the terms of the headings and any relative Section or Chapter Notes are paramount, they are the first consideration in determining classification), os métodos actualmente praticados para determinaçao do valor aduaneiro (methods at present used in determining the value for customs purposes), os estudos das perturbações biológicas causadas pela exposição a radiações procuram determinar os efeitos da radioactividade nas espécies (studies undertaken in regard to biological perturbations caused by radiation exposure focuse on determining the effects of radioactivity on species), harmonização das regras referentes à matéria colectável (harmonisation of the rules determining the tax base, harmonising the tax base), experiência determinante (determining experience), espectrómetro de massa de relação isotópicas (mass spectrometer for determining isotope ratios), actividades que determinam a duração da indisponibilidade (activities determining downtime), a grossura média dos grãos é caracterizada por um índice obtido:ou,na maior parte dos casos,por comparação com imagens-tipo para medir a grossura do grão,ou por contagem determinando o número médio de grãos por unidade de superfície (generally obtained by comparison with reference diagrams to measure the grain size, or by counting and determining the average number of grains per unit of area, the average grain size is characterized by an index). (various references) | |
Spanish | terminacion (conclusion, ending, termination). (various references) | |
Swedish | bestämmande (decision, decisive, determination, determinative, fixing), avgöra (clinch, decide, determine). (various references) | |
Turkish | berlírlí (defining). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "determining": predetermining, redetermining. (additional references) | |
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"Determining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: determinen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "determining" (pronounced duter"muning) |
| 5 | -m u n i ng | examining, reexamining, summoning. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: demeriting, dinnertime, ingredient, intermedin. | |
-2 letters: dementing, netminder, reediting, reignited, remending, reminding, reminting, tendering. | |
-3 letters: diriment, emending, enditing, entering, indenter, indigene, indigent, intender, interned, meriting, metering, mitering, nidering, regiment, reignite, reminted, retiming, trending. | |
-4 letters: deeming, demerit, dentine, denting, dieting, dimeter, dingier, dinting, dreeing, editing, emeriti, eminent, energid, engined, ermined, ginnier, grinned, ignited, igniter, indigen, inditer. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: intermingled. | |
+2 letters: intermeddling, redetermining. | |
+3 letters: intermediating, predetermining. | |
+4 letters: underestimating. | |
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