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Definition: Determinative |
DeterminativeAdjective1. Having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle". Noun1. One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases. 2. A determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "determinative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: DeterminativeSynonyms: crucial (adj), deciding(a) (adj), determining(a) (adj), causal factor (n), determinant (n), determiner (n), determining factor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Determinative |
| English words defined with "determinative": crucial ♦ deciding, determinant, determining. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "determinative": mineral species ♦ Technology, Pharmaceutical. (references) |
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| "Determinative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Determinative" is used about 32 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "determinative": Determinative tables. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bergeys manual of determinative bacteriology | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "determinative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | deterministik (necessarian, necessitarian), vendimtar (conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinant, winning), përkufizues, përcaktues (adherent, designing, determinant), faktor vendimtar. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | решаващ (conclusive, crucial, decisive, determinant, last), определящ (determinant, qualificatory, qualifying), определителен (definite, qualificative). (various references) | |
Chinese | 决定 (Decide, Decided, Deciding, Decision). (various references) | |
Czech | rozhodující (chief, commanding, critical, crucial, decisive, fatal, main, predominant, supreme, vital, winning). (various references) | |
Finnish | determinatiivinen, määräävä (determining). (various references) | |
Greek | καθοριστικόσ (decisive, determinant, determined), αποφασιστικόσ (crucial, decided, decisive, determined, resolute, strong-minded). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meghatározó (decisive, determining), elhatározó, döntő (determinant, determinate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bersifat menentukan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eterminativeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | determinante (determinant). (various references) | |
Romanian | determinant (decisive, determinant, determiner), decisiv (conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, definitive, determinant, fateful, final, ultimate, winning), hotãrâtor (all out, conclusive, crucial, decisive, final, weighty), factor determinant (determinant). (various references) | |
Russian | решающий фактор, решающий (decisive), ограничивающий (limitative). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | determinativan, determinativ. (various references) | |
Spanish | determinativo (destining, determinant). (various references) | |
Swedish | determinativ, bestämmande (decision, decisive, determination, determining, fixing). (various references) | |
Turkish | sınırlandıran şey, sınırlandıran, niteleyici sözcük (attributive, determiner), belirtme sıfatı, belirten (diacritic, indicative), belirleyici (arbiter, decisive, significative), belirleyen şey, belirleyen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вирішальний фактор (determinant), вирішальний (all in all, conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinant, fateful, final, winning), визначальне слово, визначальний (denotative, determinant, instrumental, nominating, qualificative, qualificatory). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xác định (determinant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "determinative": determinatives. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "determinative" (pronounced duter"munuti'v) |
| 4 | -u t i' v | corroborative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-r-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: intermediate. | |
-2 letters: determinate, terminative. | |
-3 letters: anteverted, inveterate, itinerated, meditative, terminated. | |
-4 letters: advertent, denervate, determent, determine, detriment, enervated, entreated, intimated, intimater, intreated, iterative, itinerate, mediative, reemitted, reinvited, remediate, retentive, revetment, terminate, venerated. | |
-5 letters: admitter, antevert, antimere, attendee, attender, averment, daintier, dementia, derivate, detainee, detainer, diameter, diriment, edentate, emendate, emeritae, enervate, eventide, ideative, imitated, inertiae, intermit, intertie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-r-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: determinatives. | |
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