Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To ascertain or fix the value or amount of.
- transitive verb To determine the importance, effectiveness, or worth of; assess: synonym: estimate.
- transitive verb Mathematics To calculate the numerical value of; express numerically.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To determine or ascertain the value of; appraise carefully; specifically, in mathematics, to ascertain the numerical value of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to draw conclusions from
examining ; toassess - verb mathematics to
compute anexpression
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- verb form a critical opinion of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Tiernans 'mission: evaluate from a family perspective eight of the top rival family sedans, in versions with family-friendly sticker prices of $25,000 or less.
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USA TODAY, car-shopping site Cars. com and PBS TV series Motorweek asked a family of four to evaluate from a family perspective eight of the top rival family sedans with stickers at $25,000 or less.
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The order of operations is directly written in code: evaluate data System.
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The order of operations is directly written in code: evaluate data System.
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The order of operations is directly written in code: evaluate data System.
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The order of operations is directly written in code: evaluate data System.
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Except stigma as a social phenomenon doesn’t seem to navigate those nuances all that well, especially when the extent to which someone has viable alternatives is a thorny question hard to objectively evaluate from the outside.
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"The state president must come forward with a concrete offer which the PAC can discuss and evaluate, that is, an offer that goes beyond an invitation."
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* Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) is weighing a challenge to Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in 2012, saying that "it's something that I look at and kind of evaluate and we'll see what happens."
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With a pre-Depression-era mentality of businessmen who thought protectionism would make them richer by stifling foreign competition, many auditors today are salivating at the fees they'll collect from the mammoth, laborious procedures necessary to "evaluate" millions of individual loans.
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