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Definition: Scrutiny |
ScrutinyNoun1. The act of examining something closely (as for mistakes). 2. A prolonged intense look. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrutiny" was first used: 1415. (references) |
Note: Scrutiny \Scru"ti*ny\, transitive verb. To scrutinize. [Obsolete]. (references) |
Synonyms: ScrutinySynonyms: examination (n), inspection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Noun: attention; mindfulness, presence of mind; Adjective: intentness, intentiveness; alertness; thought; advertence, advertency; observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard; Verb: circumspection, diligence; (care); study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal. |
Inquiry | Examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation; perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scrutiny |
| English words defined with "scrutiny": cogitation ♦ Inspecttion, insular, intensified ♦ look after ♦ Perscrutation ♦ Re-direct examination ♦ Scrutable, Scrutation, study ♦ Writ of inquiry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scrutiny": future date testing ♦ Population Surveillance ♦ SEAL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scrutiny": Scrutable. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Rival Majicians or Raising the Spirit. / Thomaso Scrutiny Inv. [i.e. Samuel De Wilde]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The credentials of Delegates and their advisers shall be subject to scrutiny by the Conference, which may, by two-thirds of the votes cast by the Delegates present, refuse to admit any Delegate or adviser whom it deems not to have been nominated in accordance with this Article. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | So far none has stood up under closer scrutiny. (references) | |
The incorporation of any new clinical intervention into accepted practice faces more scrutiny now than ever before. (references) | ||
Recent events have brought ovarian cancer under close scrutiny in the lay press and have increased demand for early detection of this devastating disease. (references) | ||
Business | These companies established a strong dumping lobby in the Parliament when the Waste Act was still under the scrutiny. (references) | |
Scientology has come under increasing scrutiny by both federal and state officials who contend that it is not a religion but an economic enterprise. (references) | ||
There will be continued pressure from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance to keep drug prices down. This pressure will be countered by the multinational pharmaceutical companies that will attempt to obtain premium prices to prevent parallel trade once Poland enters the EU. Abuses of the reimbursement system will come under greater scrutiny as the Sick Funds attempt to stamp out fraudulent claims. (references) | ||
Children | Ethiopia | In the Afar region of the east, young girls continue to be married to much older men, but this traditional practice is coming under greater scrutiny and criticism. (references) |
Switzerland | Social and youth protection services were also under scrutiny for failing to check on the child's whereabouts and for not confirming that someone was taking care of her. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | South Africa | This bill was the subject of a great deal of domestic and foreign media scrutiny and criticism. (references) |
Economic History | Taiwan | This scrutiny can lead to delays and reversals. (references) |
Hungary | Taking bribes is a criminal offense, and media scrutiny is high. (references) | |
China | To prevent rampant fraud, in 1998, China tightened the scrutiny of underlying documentation. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | There was greater scrutiny by NGO's and the media of police behavior, including prison inspections in the Punjab and Sindh. (references) |
Russia | After considerable media scrutiny, the FSB dropped the espionage charges, stating that it had reprimanded the visiting professor. (references) | |
Jamaica | Following the public scrutiny, the Government acted swiftly to determine the number of such cases and bring them before the courts. (references) | |
Political Economy | Madagascar | Overall, government efforts to bring dina authorities under closer regulation and scrutiny continued to show results. (references) |
Switzerland | These instruments allow unusually intense popular involvement in the legislative process and keep the federal government under constant scrutiny. (references) | |
Sudan | Reports of torture were less frequent than in previous years primarily in response to increased critical scrutiny by the international community. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | Opposition opportunities to hold legislation up to public scrutiny have diminished. (references) |
Oman | Under the new procedures, candidates are not subject to government scrutiny, and the Sultan no longer ratifies winning candidates. (references) | |
Malaysia | However, in July the Government proposed tabling an amendment to the electoral law that would prevent judicial scrutiny of formalized election results. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | The regulation has come under considerable attack and renewed scrutiny. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | However, there are credible reports that citizen women attempting to license businesses in the import-export sector, particularly in the Emirate of Dubai, encounter greater scrutiny than men. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | Some trade unionists claimed that unions that defy government policies face more intense scrutiny, potentially leading to deregistration. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union. |
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Sarah Ferguson | I think a lot of the newspapers have portrayed the family, that they're meant to be one way and they're not doing it right. And so they're permanently under scrutiny that they haven't done it right. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The honest veteran has nothing to fear from such a scrutiny, while the fraudulent claimant will be detected and the public Treasury relieved to an amount, I have reason to believe, far greater than has heretofore been suspected. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Performance bonuses for members of the Senior Executive Service will surely receive scrutiny. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We must insist that international trade organizations be more open to public scrutiny, instead of mysterious, secret things subject to wild criticism. |
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| "Scrutiny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrutiny" is used about 1,211 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,211 | 6,420 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scrutiny": be under close scrutiny ♦ under scrutiny. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "scrutiny": self-scrutiny. | |
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| 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 |
b b cane scrutiny | 14 |
scrutiny strict | 10 |
scrutiny | 5 |
scrutiny strict test | 2 |
ejb scrutiny.com | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "scrutiny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shqyrtim (analysis, assay, canvass, check, checkup, collation, debate, deliberation, discussion, hearing, investigation, probe, processing, scan, study, survey), vështrim hetues, këqyrje e kujdesshme. (various references) | |
Arabic | فحص دقيق (scan, scanning), كان تحت الرقابة, تفحص (bolt, look about for smth., look at, look into, scan, see into), إحصاء الأصوات (tally). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | внимателно разглеждане, внимателно изследване, изпитателен поглед. (various references) | |
Chinese | 察视. (various references) | |
Czech | skrutinium, peèlivá prohlídka, přepoèítání. (various references) | |
Farsi | موشکافی (Splithair, Subtlety), مداقه , تحقیق (Inquiry, Probe, Quest, Research, Rummage, Scholarship), رسیدگی (Assistance, Attendance, Audit, Consideration, Examination, Inquest, Inquiry, Probe, Puberty), بررسی (Survey). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarkastelu (critical examination). (various references) | |
French | vérification, pointage (score, score judging, scoring), examen minutieux, examen approfondi. (various references) | |
German | Wahlprüfung (verification of credentials), Untersuchung (assay, check, checkup, enquiry, examination, exploration, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, probe, probing, prosecution, research, sounding, study, survey, test, trial, verification). (various references) | |
Greek | προσεκτική εξέταση, εξονύχιση, λεπτομερήσ έλεγχοσ, λεπτομερήσ εξέταση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פשפוש (examination, search), ב"יק" (audit, check, check up, examination, exploration, inspection, overhaul, probe, test). (various references) | |
Hungarian | részletekbe menő vizsgálat, alapos megvizsgálás (canvassing, sifting). (various references) | |
Italian | scrutinio (assignment of marks, ballot, poll), esame minuzioso. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吟味 (careful investigation, testing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎ"み (careful investigation, testing), ためつすがめつ (scanning, taking a good look), し'し' (ogle, staring fixedly, visiting frequently), さいけ" (bond, claim, close inspection, credit, debenture, rebuilding, reconstruction, rehabilitation), せ"さく (digging into, excavation, inquiry into, investigation, prying, turning), け"とう (a votive lantern in a shrine or temple, aim, approx, be found, boxing, consideration, direction, door light, estimate, examination, fighting bravely, good fight, good luck!, good pitching, guess, investigation, lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house, mark, prizefighting, strenuous efforts, study, winter), じゅくら" (careful inspection). (various references) | |
Korean | 면밀한 조사. (various references) | |
Manx | ronsaght (investigation, quest, search). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utinyscray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pesquisa minuciosa, exame minucioso (checkup), escrutínio (balloting, voting, voting by ballot). (various references) | |
Romanian | verificare a scrutinului, investigaţie amãnunţitã, examinare minuţioasã (close examination), examen (examination, go, school, searching, test, verification), cercetare atentã (canvass). (various references) | |
Russian | изучение (research, study). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pregled (audit, auscultate, calendar, checkup, digest, exam, inspection, once-over, overhaul, overview, perusal, review, revise, scheme, survey), nadzor (custody, keeping, supervising, supervision, trust, visitation), ispitivanje (assaying, debriefing, examination, inquiry, interrogation, investigation, probe, questioning, quiz, scanning). (various references) | |
Spanish | escrutinio (canvass, count, poll, voting). (various references) | |
Swedish | noggrann undersökning (check up), granskning (audit, checkup, examinating, examination, inspection, stocktaking), granskande blick, fingranskning. (various references) | |
Turkish | oyların yeniden sayımı, ince eleyip sık dokuma (subtlety), dikkatli inceleme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уважне вивчення (scan). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhìn kỹ sự xem xét kỹ lưỡng, sự nhìn chăm chú. (various references) | |
Welsh | chwilfa (search). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scrutinium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Scrutiny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escrutiny, scruitiny, scrunity, scruntiny, scruntiy, scruti, scruting, scrutinyy, scrutny, Scruttons, scurtiny, scutiny, serutiny, srutiny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scrutiny" (pronounced skruw"tunē) |
| 5 | -uw" t u n ē | mutiny. |
| 4 | -t u n ē | botany, destiny, gluttony, litany, monotony, neoteny, paleobotany. |
| 3 | -u n ē | accompany, aborigine, agony, balcony, cacophony, colony, company, disharmony, larceny, ebony, Epiphany, felony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, mahogany, misogyny, ontogeny, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, Saxony, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: citrusy, incrust. | |
-2 letters: citrus, crusty, curtsy, cutins, incurs, rictus, rustic, rutins, tunics. | |
-3 letters: crust, curns, curst, cutin, cutis, ictus, incur, incus, nutsy, ruins, runic, runts, runty, rusty, rutin, suint, tunic, turns, units, unity, yurts. | |
-4 letters: cist, city, cris, crus, curn, curs, curt, cuts, cyst, nits, nuts, rins, ruin, runs, runt, rust, ruts, scry, scut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: curtsying. | |
+2 letters: countryish, curtseying, cystinuria, insecurity. | |
+3 letters: countryside, courtesying, cystinurias, incuriosity, inscrutably. | |
+4 letters: countrysides, unhysterical. | |
+5 letters: anfractuosity, coterminously, instructively, uncustomarily, unsymmetrical. | |
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