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Definition: Determine |
DetermineVerb1. After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize". 2. Shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion". 3. Fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules". 4. Decide upon, as of variables in math. 5. Reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations". 6. Fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; the tree determines the border of the property. 7. Settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument". 8. Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "determine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Determine \De*ter"mine\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Determined; Determining.]. (references) |
Synonyms: DetermineSynonyms: ascertain (v), check (v), decide (v), find (v), find out (v), fix (v), influence (v), learn (v), make up one's mind (v), mold (v), regulate (v), see (v), set (v), settle (v), shape (v), specify (v), square off (v), square up (v), watch (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Answer | Explain; (interpret); solve; (unriddle); discover; a; fathom, hunt out; (inquire); satisfy, set at rest, determine. |
Cause | Conduce to; (tend to); contribute; have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common origin; derive its origin; (effect). |
Certainty | Render certain; Adjective: insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure; determine, decide, set at rest, " make assurance double sure "; know; (believe). |
Direction | Verb: tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine. |
Discovery | Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter. |
End | Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle. |
Judgment | Verb: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind. |
Measurement | Verb: measure, mete; determine, assay; evaluate, value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on; appreciate; standardize. |
Quantity | Verb: quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine,Verb: quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine, quantitate, enumerate. |
Resolution | Verb: have determination; Noun: know one's own mind; be resolved; Adjective: make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide; (judgment); form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step; (choice); take upon oneself; (undertake). |
Speciality | Verb: specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select. |
Will | Verb: will, list; see fit, think fit; determine; (resolve); enjoin; settle; (choose); volunteer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Determine |
| Etymologies containing "determine": Determinate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Using that model they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in the next, say, 10 years. Which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind to -- to determine everything I was gonna do in that period (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) Well, the real reason that you've been sent over here is because they wanted you to be evaluated to determine whether or not you are mentally ill. This is the real reason (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) I was probing to determine skeletal girth and muscle tone (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) What we are trying to determine, Mister Ocean, is why you decided to commit this crime, or why you got caught this time (Ocean's Eleven; writing credit: George Clayton Johnson; Jack Golden Russell) What we do over the next five years, here and at home, and across the darkness of between the stars will determine the whether an entire world will live or die. It's a fight we can't afford to lose and we won't (Babylon 5: A Call to Arms; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski) | |
Clever | What you do when you don't have to do it will determine what you are when it's too late to do anything about it! (references; author: unknown) Thoughts lead to acts. Acts lead to habits. Habits lead to character, and our characters will determine our eternal destiny. (references; author: unknown) | |
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A scientist is screening a baboon virus and comparing it with HIV-I for similarities. Bacteriophage colonies are grown to determine whether there is a similarity in the two viruses and to discover the proper sequence of the AIDS virus. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | Patient is being prepared for surgery. An operating room is pictured with physician looking on while patient is being administered anesthetic. Several surgical attendants are also visible. Surgical biopsy is called for to determine exact nature of solid tumor. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ||
Lab technicians reading and checking serologies to determine presence of influenza A/NJ/8/76 (Swine Flu) and registering antibody rise to the swine influenza virus during vaccine testing trials. Credit: CDC. | The zone of inhibition is measured and compared to a standard in order to determine if an antibiotic is effective in treating the bacterial infection. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Building shaker in the doorway of a building Used to determine earthquake engineering characteristics of buildings C&GS was the first organization to undertake engineering seismology studies Party of William D. Patterson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Ground shaker at Position "A" Used to determine earthquake engineering characteristics of buildings C&GS was the first organization to undertake engineering seismology studies Party of William D. Patterson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | A middle school field trip to Kings Landing. Dragging seine net to determine kinds and variety of organisms present in the river at this time of year. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Lieutenant Commander Harley Nygren on the "hero platform." Taking a Nansen cast to determine water temperatures and density. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Spring-loaded grab sampler used to determine bottom characteristics. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Tip n tell" by Margus Kyttä Commentary: "Tip n tell device to determine weather or not the package was tipped or tilted. (CD box on background just for color)." | "Chichén Itza Ballcourt" by Luis Alves Commentary: "The Mayans were great sportsmen and build huge ballcourts to play their games. The Great Ballcourt of Chichén Itzá is 545 feet long and 225 feet wide overall. It has no vault, no discontinuity between the walls and is totally open to the sky. Each end has" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. |
George Eliot | Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. |
George Washington | The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. |
Plato | The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. |
W. Clement Stone | You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. |
William Shakespeare | What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Had there been any such court, any superior jurisdiction on earth, to determine the right between Jephtha and the Ammonites, they had never come to a state of war: but we see he was forced to appeal to heaven. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | A special Convention shall determine the conditions and procedure of these transfers. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The thing is determined, that is (laughing affectedly) as far as I can presume to determine any thing without the concurrence of my lord and master |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Bruneseau had made a beginning, but it required the cholera to determine the vast reconstruction which has since taken place |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met Is to determine of the coronation |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But how far this might be applicable to our courts and favorites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The key to treating chronic diarrhea is to determine its cause. (references) | |
Future work is needed to determine whether this is a valid approach. (references) | ||
The site and type of brachial plexus injury determine the prognosis. (references) | ||
Business | Supply and demand determine compensation. (references) | |
Thus, it is difficult to determine accurately the scope of human rights abuses. (references) | ||
In this case INDE would determine the cost of the investment made to study the project. (references) | ||
Children | Haiti | It also called for the establishment of a commission to determine what disciplinary measures would be appropriate for schools to take. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Mexico | The police allegedly assaulted the group during questioning to determine the identity of the trip's organizer. (references) |
South Africa | The Department asked the school to launch an investigation to determine whether the children were Rastafarians in fact. (references) | |
Discrimination | Slovak Republic | In September Deputy Prime Minister Csaky's office drafted a comprehensive antidiscrimination law in response to findings in 2000 from a committee that was appointed to examine existing antidiscrimination legislation and determine whether additional legislation is necessary. (references) |
Economic History | Costa Rica | The Costa Rican government does not determine product prices. (references) |
Vietnam | Domestic investors can now determine their own management structures. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Judges determine the outcome of all trials; jury trials are rare. (references) |
South Africa | In March the Commission began a process to determine which claims were valid. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | There is insufficient information to determine the number of political prisoners. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guyana | Under the act, the Government may determine who is an Amerindian and what is an Amerindian community, appoint Amerindian leaders, and annul decisions made by Amerindian councils. (references) |
Dominica | Elections are held every 5 years, and the latest election was held in 1999. According to the Carib Constitution, the Council must meet once a month, determine the chief's itinerary, and publish council meeting agendas in the government Gazette. (references) | |
Australia | In March 2000, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed serious concern that the Government's Native Title amendments would allow the states and territories to pass legislation containing provisions "reducing further the protection of native title claimants." The CERD declared "unsatisfactory" the Government's response to concerns about the Native Title regime expressed in 1999. The Government responded later that year that the laws were passed after full debate in a democratically elected legislature and that the states have a sovereign right to determine land use policy. (references) | |
Minorities | Egypt | In a number of cases regarding the murder of Christians, it was difficult to determine whether religion was a factor. (references) |
Egypt | Observers, including human rights groups, find it extremely difficult to determine whether compulsion was used, as most cases involve a Coptic girl who converts to Islam when she marries a Muslim boy. (references) | |
United Kingdom | When violence broke out, the Government, in accordance with the Race Relations Act, set up independent boards of inquiry to determine the causes of the violence and examine its effects on multiethnic communities. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The Act permits the formation of a Wages Council to determine a minimum wage. (references) |
Italy | It is currently too early to determine his views on the use of biotechnology in agriculture. (references) | |
COLOMBIA | A price-band system to determine tariffs for agricultural products excluded them from the liberalization process. (references) | |
Political Rights | East Timor | The Constituent Assembly was formed to write a constitution to determine the structure of government and division of powers for an independent East Timor. (references) |
Bhutan | The King is to determine the portfolios of his ministers, whose terms are limited to 5 years, after which they must pass a vote of confidence in the National Assembly in order to remain in office. (references) | |
Czech Republic | In December 2000, the Interior Ministry publicly announced that it was conducting an investigation into the constitution of the far right Patriotic Republican Party to determine if the party should be deregistered, and the police and security services monitored the party's activities. (references) | |
Trade | Greece | Credit institutions may freely determine interest rates. (references) |
Kenya | U.S. firms are advised to determine the range of financing offered by competitors. (references) | |
Ecuador | Exporters can also contact their Ecuadorian importers to determine current regulations. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Customs will determine the duty based on the invoice value or, in the absence of an invoice, the estimated value calculated by Customs office. (references) |
China | U.S. exhibitors should contact the exhibition organizers to determine their liabilities regarding sample entries for such events before registering to participate, to obtain a clearer understanding of exhibition-related expenses. (references) | |
Morocco | A growing number of young Moroccan entrepreneurs with degrees from American schools conduct business in English, but it is always a good idea to determine in advance the language to be used during the meeting, should it be necessary to hire an interpreter. (references) | |
Women | Japan | However, in August the Tokyo District High Court ruled against conventional wage compensation assessment methods that used exisiting gender income disparities to determine future earnings potential in the case of minors. (references) |
Cameroon | In cases of divorce, the husband's wishes determine the custody of children over the age of 6. While a man may be convicted of adultery only if the sexual act takes place in his home, a female may be convicted without respect to venue. (references) | |
Hong Kong | The EOC's task force on Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value announced in September its plan to commission a two-month study of government and Hospital Authority jobs to determine whether men and women are paid the same for performing similar tasks. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | The Labor Law allows local governments to determine their own standards on minimum wages. (references) |
Nigeria | There were few statistics available to determine the success of antitrafficking campaigns. (references) | |
Nauru | Employers determine wages for foreign contract workers based on market conditions and the consumer price index. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DELIBERATION, n. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jesse Ventura | Well, I find that steps over the boundary, I think, of the public-private sector in a lot of ways. I think that, you know, it should be more left up to the individual establishment to determine whether they want smokers or don't. |
Senator Patrick Leahy | I'd hold a hearing. We'd have a completely fair hearing. Justice Scalia is a longtime personal friend. We'd have that hearing, and I'd determine after the hearing. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
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. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | If we examine carefully what we have done, we can determine the more accurately what we can do. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The programs we adopt this year and from now on will determine our ability to achieve our objectives. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We have declared that anything is negotiable except the right of the people of South Vietnam to determine their own future. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | My Administration also supports the completion of the Upper Mississippi River Master Plan to determine the feasibility of constructing a second lock at Alton, Illinois. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny. |
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| "Determine" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.91% of the time. "Determine" is used about 3,906 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 (infinitive) | 83.91% | 3,278 | 2,908 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.09% | 628 | 10,333 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,906 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "determine": determine in advance ♦ determine on ♦ determine on doing smth. ♦ determine on smth. ♦ determine sex ♦ determine to ♦ determine to do smth.. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "determine": pre-determine, re-determine, self-determine, under-determine. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "determine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vasstel (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make, make fast, secure), vasmaak (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make, make fast, secure), bepaal (affix, attach, command, confine, define, fasten, fix, limit, make, make fast, order, qualify, restrict, secure, set, set conditions, stipulate, tell). (various references) | |
Albanian | vendosem (locate, make up one's mind, put up, sit down, stand, think fit), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), përkufizoj, përfundoj (accomplish, bring closer, button up, clinch, close, come out, complete, conclude, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, fulfil, fulfill, lapse, perfect, push through, put through, reason, result, terminate, touch up, transact, wear), përcaktoj (article, ascertain, assign, condition, define, design, designate, destine, elect, evaluate, stipulate), nxit të bëj, nxis të bëj, merr fund (drop), mas (admeasure, fit on, measure, mete, size, span, weigh), llogarit (account, allow, calculate, count, figure, figure on, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), llogaris (account, allow, calculate, cast, compute, count, figure, figure on, find, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), kushtëzoj (condition), bëj të (get, start). (various references) | |
Arabic | فصل فى, فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), محتوم (certain, fated, inescapable, inevitable, predestined, sure, unavoidable), قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, destine, dispose, establish, figure, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), حتم (necessitate, predestine, predetermine), حسم (clench, clinch, decide, decision, deduct, deduction, determination, discount, discounting, dispose, rebate, recoup, refund, settlement, sew up, shave), حدد (adjust, allocate, appoint, assess, assign, be specified, calibrate, center, centre, condition, constrict, define, fix, itemize, limit, line, locate, mark, name, narrow, pin, pinpoint, prefix, prescribe, qualify, set, shoe, type), عقد العزم, صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, defecate, do away with, filter, filtrate, leach, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud, wipe out), إنتهى (do, end, fall out, finish, have smth. done, issue, pack up, run out, turn out, wink), إتخذ قرارا (make), أنهى (call a halt, close, complete, compose, conclude, cut, dissolve, do, end, finish, fulfil, fulfill, last, last out, round off, terminate, top, wind up, wrap up), رسم الحدود (border, border on, draw the line). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | установявам (ascertain, establish, find, ground, institute, plant, prescribe, seal, vindicate), спирам се (draw bit, dwell on, enlarge, jib, pull up, repose, rest, stand, stay, stop), решавам (adjudicate, choose, conclude, decide, elect, figure out, make up one's mind, resolve, seal, settle, solve, work), разрешавам (allow, authorise, authorize, knit up, let, licence, license, pass, permit, provide for, resolve, sanction, suffer), отсъждам (adjudge, adjudicate, decide, decree, judge, mete out, rule, settle), обуславям (condition), определям (allot, allow, assign, characterize, define, design, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, qualify, set down, settle, spot, state), приключвам (conclude, end, end off, get over, sign off, top off, wind up, work out), изтичам (escape, expire, finish, issue, leak, outflow, run, run off, run out, sluice, wear through). (various references) | |
Chinese | 騭 (promote, stallion), 确定 (Certain, Confirmative, Definite, Determinate, Determining, deterministic), 下決心 (resolve). (various references) | |
Czech | determinovat, zjistit (ascertain, average, chase up, detect, elicit, establish, find, find out, read, tell), urèovat (govern), urèit (allocate, appoint, assign, define, design, designate, destine, earmark, fix, identify, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will), stanovit (assess, define, fix, lay, lay down, name, ordain, rule, set down, specify, will), rozhodnout (adjudge, adjudicate, choose, decide, decree, resolve, seal). (various references) | |
Danish | befæste (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references) | |
Dutch | nauwkeurig bepalen (fix), determineren (fix). (various references) | |
Esperanto | difini (define), determini (fix), fiksi (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references) | |
Faeroese | siga greiniliga (fix), lýsa (define, describe, illuminate, light, shine), greiða (account for, analyse, clarify, comb, curl, define, deliver, do, explain, furnish, supply), gera av (decide, define, fix), festa (affix, attach, employ, fasten, fix, hire, make fast, secure). (various references) | |
Farsi | مصمم شدن , حکم دادن (Doom, Judge), تعیین کردن (Appoint, Assess, Assign, Bound, Fix, Locate, Prescribe, Qualify, Slate, Specify, State, Telloff), تصمیم گرفتن (Decide, Resolve). (various references) | |
Finnish | määritellä (define, fix, specify). (various references) | |
French | fixer (define), déterminer (define). (various references) | |
Frisian | definiearje (define), fêstdwaan (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references) | |
German | determinieren (fix), bestimmen (appoint, ascertain, characterize, classify, condition, decide, define, design, designate, destine, earmark, fix, govern, identify, intend, lay down, mark out, mean, ordain, prearrange, qualify, set, specify, to appoint, to designate, to destine, to determine, to intend, to ordain, type, will). (various references) | |
Greek | καθορίζω (decide, define, designate, map, quote, settle on, specify), προσδιορίζω (assign, define, designate, specify), υπολογίζω (average, calculate, compute, count, estimate, gauge, reckon). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקבוע (appoint, condition, designate, fix, insert, install, prescribe, provide), לחשב (calculate, compute, reckon, tally, work out), לחרוץ דין (resolve, sentence), להחליט (decide, make up ones mind, resolve), להגדיר (define, denote). (various references) | |
Hungarian | determinál (fix), definiál (define, to define), meghatároz (ascertain, assign, define, fix, limit, locate, specify, to allocate, to appoint, to assign, to circumscribe, to define, to determine, to peg down, to specify, to spell out, to stipulate), megállapít (ascertain, assess, diagnose, diagnosticate, identify, pre-ordain, to allocate, to appoint, to assess, to determine, to diagnose, to lay down general rules, to premise, to quote, to set out, to state, to tax, to time), elhatároz (conclude, decide, make up one's mind, to decree, to determine, to fix on, to make a resolution, to set forth, to set out). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendiktekan (dictate), mendeterminasikan (decide). (various references) | |
Italian | fissare (affix, appoint, arrange, assess, assign, attach, be fixed, bind, block, book, designate, destine, establish, eye, fasten, fix, gaze, implant, make, make fast, make firm, name, peer, pin, pin down, plant, reserve, rivet, root, schedule, secure, set, settle, stare, stipulate), definire (define, finalize, fix, qualify, settle, term), decidere (adjudicate, clinch, decide, elect, make up one's mind, make up your mind, resolve, settle, to decide). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 決する (to decide, to determine), 定める (to decide, to determine, to establish), 定める (to decide, to determine, to establish). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さだめる (to decide, to determine, to establish), けっする (to decide, to determine). (various references) | |
Korean | 결정하십시요 (crystallise, Crystallize, Decide). (various references) | |
Manx | soiaghey (beset, fix, implant, incursion, installation, let, letting, mounting, pitch, place, plant, posture, repose, seat, set, set up, setting, settle, situate, situation, station, synchronize), reaghey (arbitrate, arrange, brush out, decide, disentangle, disentanglement, edit, organize, set on fire; decision, umpire), kiarail (circumspection, cogitate, cogitation, design, destine, intend, intention, prepare; care, provide, provision, purport, purpose, purvey, resolution, resolve, vigilance), jannoo magh (content, deduce, define, divine, make out, purvey, purveyance, satisfy, seek out, supply, think out, work out, work out as position), feddyn magh (ascertain, ascertainment, dig out, discover, discovery, elicit, invent, invention, seek out), cronnaghey (check over, detect, miss, observe, perceive, scan). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bestemme (decide). (various references) | |
Papiamen | definí (define). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etermineday.(various references) | |
Polish | determinować (fix), ustalić (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make fast, secure), ustalać (fix), umocować (affix, attach, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references) | |
Portuguese | fixar (affix, allocate, append, appoint, assign, clench, cling to, define, engrave, fasten, firm, fix, get caught on, impact, joggle, lodge, make fast, nail, pin, pitch, plant, put, record, rivet, root, secure, steady, tie), determinar (access, affix, appoint, ascertain, condition, define, destine, determinate, fasten, fix, govern, make, make fast, make up one's mind, order, post, prescribe, put, resolve, route, secure, set, settle), definir (define). (various references) | |
Romanian | fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, call forth, cause, conditional, convince, define, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge). (various references) | |
Russian | определять (appoint, assign, define, designate, destine, fix, identify to, mete, modify, pinpoint, qualify, rate, sniff out, specifies, specify). (various references) | |
Scottish | socraich (cease, fix, make steady, settle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | determinisati, utvrditi (affirm, clinch, consolidate, entrench, establish, fortify, nail, nail down, stipulate), opredeliti (appropriate, decide, destine), odrediti (allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, cast, define, designate, destine, detail, fix, mark off, mark out, modify, order, peg, route, set, set by), određivati (govern, run the show), odlučiti (choose, chose, conclude, decide, decree, resolve, set one's mind on doing smth., settle, will). (various references) | |
Spanish | fijar (affix, allowance, arrange, assign, attach, bed, fasten, fix, focus, make fast, name, pin up, plaster, post, post up, put up, schedule, secure, set, settle, take down, take to, take up, term), determinar (decide, define, designate, destine, determinate, dispose, establish, fix, shape, swing), definir (define, determinate, nail). (various references) | |
Swedish | bestämma (appoint, assign, be determined, condition, decide, decree, define, designate, destine, direct, fix, fix up, intend, judge, mean, modify, name, qualify, rule, set, settle, sway), avgöra (arrange, clinch, decide, determining, dispose of, judge, seal, tell). (various references) | |
Turkish | saptamak (appoint, assign, establish, fix, peg, state), sabitleştirmek (fixate), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, cost, create, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), kararlaştırmak (agree, appoint, arrange, concert, decide, fix, fix on, fix up on, set, settle, slate), karara varmak (arrive at a decision, come to a decision, conclude, find, judge, make a decision, make up one's mind, resolve, rule, take a decision), karara bağlanmak, belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, peg, seal, set, set down, settle, single out, slate, specify, state). (various references) | |
Turkmen | seljermek (distinguish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вимірювати (gauge, meter, size), визначати (assign, balance, decree, define, designate, determinate, govern, identify, mete, operate, ordain, order, single, specificate, tell), обумовлювати (condition, govern, postulate, specify, stipulate), обчислювати (calculate, compute, cypher, date, figure out, numerate). (various references) | |
Welsh | terfynu (end, terminate), pennu (appoint, specify), penderfynu (resolve). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cerno, decerno, definire, destinatam, destinatos, destinatum, destinaverunt, destinavit, determinare, determinat, determinatum, exigo, finiantur, finierint, finies, finietur, finis, finissem, finisset, finita, finiti, finitisque, finito, finitum, finitur, finitus, finiunturque, finivit, praefinitionem, praefinitum. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | definir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ean de macwntai duo andreV kai pataxwsin gunaika en gastri ecousan kai exelqh to paidion authV mh exeikonismenon epizhmion zhmiwqhsetai kaqoti an epibalh o anhr thV gunaikoV dwsei meta axiwmatoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si rixati fuerint viri et percusserit quis mulierem praegnantem et abortivum quidem fecerit sed ipsa vixerit subiacebit damno quantum expetierit maritus mulieris et arbitri iudicarint |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If men chiden, and a man smyte a womman with child, and make forsothe the child deed born, but she lyueth, he shal be vndurcast to the harme, as myche as the housbond of the womman wole aske, and domes men shulen deme. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When men stryue and smyte a woman with childe so that hir frute departe from her and yet no mysfortune foloweth: then shall he be mersed, acordynge as the womans husbonde will laye to his charge, and he shall paye as the dayes men appoynte him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If men shall contend, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit shall depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kong may mga tawo nga manag-away ug makasamad sa usa ka babaye nga nagamabdos, sa pagkaagi nga kini siya makuhaan, ug walay kadaut nga nahitabo, ang nakasamad pagamultahan ingon sa igapahamtang kaniya sa bana sa babaye, ug magabayad siya sumala sa gimbut-an sa mga maghuhukom. |
| Croatian | Ako se ljudi pobiju i udare trudnu ženu te ona pobaci, ali druge štete ne bude, onda onaj koji ju je udario neka plati odštetu koju zatraži njezin muž. On neka plati kako suci odrede. |
| Danish | Når Mænd kommer i Slagsmål og støder til en frugtsommelig Kvinde, så hun nedkommer i Utide, men der ellers ingen Ulykke sker, da skal han bøde, hvad Kvindens Mand pålægger ham, og give Erstatning for det dødfødte Barn. |
| Dutch | Wanneer nu mannen kijven, en slaan een zwangere vrouw, dat haar de vrucht afgaat, doch geen dodelijk verderf zij, zo zal hij zekerlijk gestraft worden, gelijk als hem de man der vrouw oplegt, en hij zal het geven door de rechters. |
| Finnish | Jos miehet tappelevat keskenänsä ja loukkaavat raskasta vaimoa, niin että hän synnyttää kesken, mutta vahinkoa ei tapahdu, niin sakotettakoon syyllistä vaimon miehen vaatimuksen ja riidanratkaisijain harkinnan mukaan. |
| French | Si des hommes se querellent, et qu`ils heurtent une femme enceinte, et la fasse accoucher, sans autre accident, ils seront punis d`une amende imposée par le mari de la femme, et qu`ils paieront devant les juges. |
| German | Wenn Männer hadern und verletzen ein schwangeres Weib, daß ihr die Frucht abgeht, und ihr kein Schade widerfährt, so soll man ihn um Geld strafen, wieviel des Weibes Mann ihm auflegt, und er soll's geben nach der Schiedsrichter Erkennen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau beberapa orang lelaki sedang berkelahi dan salah seorang di antara mereka mendatangkan cedera pada seorang perempuan hamil sehingga ia keguguran, tetapi tidak menderita pada bagian lain, maka orang itu harus membayar denda sebesar yang dituntut suaminya dan disetujui oleh hakim-hakim. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka jikalau ada orang berkelahi serta memalu seorang yang bunting, sehingga gugurlah anaknya, tetapi tiadalah bahaya kematian, maka tak akan jangan ia kena denda sekadar yang dikenakan oleh lakinya orang itu dan yang ditentukan oleh orang wasit. |
| Italian | Quando alcuni uomini rissano e urtano una donna incinta, così da farla abortire, se non vi è altra disgrazia, si esigerà un'ammenda, secondo quanto imporrà il marito della donna, e il colpevole pagherà attraverso un arbitrato. |
| Maori | ¶ Ki te whawhai etahi tangata ki a ratou, a ka whara tetahi wahine e hapu ana, a ka materoto tana tamaiti, otiia kahore atu he he, me tango he utu i a ia, ara ta te tahu o te wahine e whakarite ai ki a ia; hei ta nga kaiwhakawa e mea ai tana e hom ai ai. |
| Norwegian | Når menn kommer i slagsmål med hverandre og støter til en fruktsommelig kvinne, så hun føder i utide, men ellers ingen ulykke skjer, så skal den som gjorde det, gi den bot som kvinnens mann pålegger ham; han skal gi efter dommeres skjønn. |
| Portuguese | Se alguns homens brigarem, e um ferir uma mulher grávida, e for causa de que aborte, não resultando, porém, outro dano, este certamente será multado, conforme o que lhe impuser o marido da mulher, e pagará segundo o arbítrio dos juízes; |
| Rumanian | Dacq se ceartq doi oameni, wi lovesc pe o femeie knsqrcinatq, wi o fac doar sq nascq knainte de vreme, fqrq altq nenorocire, sq fie pedepsiyi cu o gloabq, pusq de bqrbatul femeii, wi pe care o vor plqti dupq hotqrkrea judecqtorilor. |
| Spanish | "Cuando algunos hombres peleen y hieran a una mujer encinta y ésta aborte sin mayor daño, el culpable será multado de acuerdo con lo que le imponga el marido de la mujer y según lo que establezcan los jueces. |
| Swedish | Om män träta med varandra, och någon av dem stöter till en havande kvinna, så att hon föder fram sitt foster, men eljest ingen olycka sker, så böte han vad kvinnans man ålägger honom och betale efter skiljedomares prövning. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "determine": determined, determinedly, determinedness, determinednesses, determiner, determiners, determines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "determine": predetermine, redetermine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "determine": overdetermined, predetermined, predeterminer, predeterminers, predetermines, redetermined, redetermines, undetermined. (additional references) | |
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"Determine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dedermine, deermine, Dejerine, Deterink, determen, determime, determin, Determind, determinen, determineth, determing, determint, detremine, Detterman, ketomine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "determine" (pronounced duter"mun) |
| 5 | -t er" m u n | predetermine. |
| 4 | -er" m u n | Firman, Ermine, german, sermon. |
| 3 | -m u n | famine, ferryman, fireman, firemen, abdomen, acumen, adman, admen, airman, albumin, alderman, antihistamine, Ashman, assemblywoman, backgammon, backwoodsman, Badman, bagman, barman, baseman, bayman, bellman, Benjamin, bitumen, Boardman, boatman, bookman, Bowman, bowmen, brakeman, bushman, businesswoman, cameraman, Carman, Carmen, carmine, cattlemen, Cayman, chairman, chairwoman, Chapman, chessman, chrismon, churchman, churchmen, cinnamon, clergyman, coachman, cochairman, committeeman, common, congressman, congresswoman, corpsman, councilman, councilwoman, councilwomen, countryman, cowman, craftsman, craftsmen, crewman, daemon, dairymen, Daman, demon, desman, Dolman, draftsman, draftsmen, dromon, dustman, Dutchman, Everyman, examine, footman, foramen, foreman, foremen, forewoman, Freedman, Freeman, freshman, gammon, gentleman, gentlewoman, gentlewomen, Goodman, gunman, hangman, headman, headsman, henchman, henchmen, Herdman, Hetman, horseman, horsemen, houseman, human, huntsman, hymen, illumine, infantryman, inhuman, jasmine, Kirkman, Landman, landsman, lawman, layman, laymen, Leman, lemon, Letterman, Liman, Lineman, linemen, lobsterman, longshoremen, lumen, madmen, marksman, messman, midshipman, newswoman, newswomen, nobleman, noblewoman, nonhuman, nurserymen, oarsman, ombudsman, omen, ottoman, Outman, overman, Packman, Penman, pitchman, Pitman, Plowman, policeman, policewoman, postman, pressman, Pullman, ragmen, reexamine, regimen, rifleman, Rodman, roman, rumen, salarymen, salesman, saleswoman, saleswomen, salmon, seaman, seamen, seedsman, semen, shaman, Shipman, showman, Spearman, specimen, spokesman, spokeswoman, sportsman, statesman, Stillman, Stockman, subhuman, summon, superhuman, superwoman, talisman, Telamon, thiamin, timberman, Titman, Toman, townsman, tradesmen, trainmen, uncommon, vitamin, watchman, Waterman, watermen, wingman, wireman, woman, women, Woodman, woodsmen, Woolman, workman, yachtsman, yeoman. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: reminted. | |
-2 letters: demerit, dimeter, emender, emetine, entered, eremite, ermined, merited, metered, mitered, needier, reedmen, retimed, teenier. | |
-3 letters: dement, denier, dieter, emetin, endite, entire, entree, ermine, eterne, itemed, meeter, mender, metier, metred, minder, minted, minter, mitred, needer, nereid, redeem, reedit, reemit, reined, remeet, remend, remind, remint, rented, retene, retied, retime, retine, rident, teemed, teemer. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: determined, determiner, determines, extermined, methedrine, misentered, mutineered, regimented. | |
+2 letters: debridement, determinate, determiners, incremented, intermeddle, intermeshed, methedrines, redetermine, remoistened, remonetized. | |
+3 letters: bewilderment, debridements, decipherment, decrementing, demagnetizer, densitometer, determinable, determinedly, disagreement, disseverment, endothermies, experimented, exterminated, hereditament, intermeddled, intermeddler, intermeddles, intermediate, predetermine, premoistened, radioelement, redemptioner, redetermined, redetermines, undetermined, unembittered. | |
+4 letters: advertisement, advertizement, bewilderments, decipherments, demagnetizers, densitometers, determinacies, determinately, determinative, disagreements, dismemberment, disseverments, endometrioses, hereditaments, indeterminate, interepidemic, intermeddlers, intermediated, intermediates, mediterranean, predetermined, predeterminer, predetermines, radioelements, redemptioners, redetermining, semisedentary, underestimate. | |
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