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Verb determine has 8 senses
- determine, find, find out, ascertain - 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"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
- determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate - shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
--2 is one way to cause, do, make
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Something ----s something
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
- determine, set - fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody
- specify, set, determine, fix, limit - decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
--4 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- decide, make up one's mind, determine - reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
Sample sentence:
They determine to move
- determine - fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; the tree determines the border of the property
--6 is one way to specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate
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Something ----s something
- settle, square off, square up, determine - settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
--7 is one way to conclude, resolve
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Somebody ----s something
- determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn - 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"
Sample sentence:
They determine whether there was a traffic accident
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