Definitions for determine

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determine de·ter·mine

Spelling: [dih-tur-min]

IPA: /dɪˈtɜr mɪn/

Determine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 300 anagrams from letters in determine (deeeimnrt).

Definitions for determine

verb (used with object)

1. to settle or decide (a dispute, question, etc.) by an authoritative or conclusive decision.
2. to conclude or ascertain, as after reasoning, observation, etc.
3. Geometry. to fix the position of.
4. to cause, affect, or control; fix or decide causally:
5. to give direction or tendency to; impel.
6. Logic. to limit (a notion) by adding differentiating characteristics.
7. Chiefly Law. to put an end to; terminate.
8. to lead or bring (a person) to a decision.
9. to decide upon.

verb (used without object)

1. to come to a decision or resolution; decide.
2. Chiefly Law. to come to an end.

Origin of determine

1325-75; Middle English determinen Anglo-French, Old French determiner Latin dētermināre, equivalent to dē- de- + termināre to bound, limit; see Examples for determine

Can they determine that individual citizens should not have access to rights provided by the Constitution?

What does Bondi mean that clerks now should “determine how to proceed”?

What real worth might lie under this sunny surface the future must determine.

The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.

But if you determine as we would have you, and signify it to us, we shall not stand with you for a week or so.

Where the U.S. once depended on its own forces to determine who was military material, this time the Iraqis will decide.

It is my duty, father, blindly to follow all you determine upon for me.

So far as he could determine, she: had not even sunk once beneath the surface.

That makes it incredibly difficult to determine the effects of airstrikes, for example.

And always he watched me, for what purpose I could not determine.