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Determine

verb

(past & past part. determined; pres. part. determining)

Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out. "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

Shape or influence; give direction to. Synonyms: influence, mold, regulate, shape. "Mold public opinion"

Fix conclusively or authoritatively. Synonym: set.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

Reach, make, or come to a decision about something. Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind.

Fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.

Settle conclusively; come to terms. Synonyms: settle, square off, square up.

Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort. Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch. "See whether it works" , "Find out if he speaks Russian" , "Check whether the train leaves on time"

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"Determine" Quotes from Famous Books

... and had not yet been at his work long enough to determine his ultimate nature. Later on, his profession would do to him one of two things. It would transform him into a mere machine, brutalised and calloused, with only one or two emotions aside from selfishness left to thrive in his dwarfed soul, or it would humanise him to godlike unselfishness, ...

— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed

... suppose), gorgeously bedecked with spots of silver on the under surface of the wings. All these evidently knew that plenty of flowers were to be found along this seemingly barren, rocky crest. Whether they have any less sensuous motive for loving to wander over such heights, who will presume to determine? It may very well be that their almost ethereal structure—such spread of wing with such lightness of body—is only the outward sign of gracious thoughts and feelings, of a sensitiveness to beauty far surpassing ...

— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey

... Consultative Assembly (Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat or MPR) includes the DPR plus 500 indirectly elected members who meet every five years to elect the president and vice president and, theoretically, to determine ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... to its result—yet, because the result of a system of education cannot express itself in any one insulated fact, it will demand as much judgment to abstract from any limited experience what really is the result as would have sufficed to determine its merits a priori without waiting for any result. Consequently, as it would be impossible to exonerate ourselves from the necessity of an elaborate act of judgment by any appeal to the practical ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... was on his feet, addressing the judge, requesting that the jury determine whether or not the defendant ...

— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

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