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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
determined
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a determined campaign
▪ His wife waged a determined campaign for his release.
a determined chinliterary (= giving a face a determined appearance)
▪ She had short hair and a determined chin.
a determined effort (=showing a lot of determination)
▪ She had made a determined effort to lose weight.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ To protect themselves they also determined to withdraw to a monastery.
▪ She was also determined to spend as much time in dress shops as she possibly could!
▪ I; and with a given production function the rate of growth in that department is also determined.
▪ It was also determined to introduce wagon building at Wolverton.
▪ Elena was also determined that her children should have successful educations.
▪ He's also determined to acquire systems software technology like utilities from the outside.
as
▪ This can be a helpful approach in discussion - some one may regard you as stubborn, whereas you see yourself as determined.
▪ Surely she was still as determined as ever not to allow anyone to creep through her defences and make her care?
▪ She was determined he should qualify as a doctor and just as determined that he should practise here.
▪ He admired some of them as determined but ordinary folk.
▪ He is as determined to preserve his positive face here as he is to defend his negative face in scene three.
genetically
▪ This predisposition may be genetically determined.
▪ Moving from insects to reptiles to mammals, the importance of learned, as opposed to genetically determined, behaviour gradually increases.
more
▪ Baglin emerged for the second set looking more determined, and quickly set about re-establishing himself in the match.
▪ Dennis Hopper was even more determined than Fonda to make it work.
▪ By 1952 he was becoming all the more determined that the United States should not be tarred with the colonial brush.
▪ But more determined art criminals posing as tourists helped themselves to ornate craftwork from the chapel.
▪ This time however government attempts to bring about change have been more determined and enduring.
▪ Our response to recession must simply be to be more determined, focused and innovative.
▪ But it was a temporary setback that made him even more determined to achieve his boyhood dream.
▪ It made me even more determined to keep alive the memory of both Dawn and my wife.
most
▪ Eddery had to be at his most determined to beat Nominator whose hallmark is toughness.
▪ From the middle years of the fourteenth century, such steps were sufficient to keep all but the most determined attackers at bay.
▪ I met the most determined teenage resistance ever.
▪ Padlocking steel collars on to the corner legs will help prevent even the most determined thief from moving your caravan.
▪ Politically, the leaders of organized labour were the most determined campaigners on the pensioners' behalf.
quite
▪ We'd rowed about it endlessly, but I was quite determined.
▪ She hadn't quite determined what it was going to mean to her.
so
▪ But they also explore psychology's boundaries: an important focus for a discipline so determined to define itself rigorously.
▪ I had never seen any animal, human or otherwise, so wild - so determined, so excited, so driven.
▪ But ideas which are determined by social reality are not, because they are so determined, necessarily erroneous.
▪ He's so determined, so forceful - he does what he wants and to hell with the consequences!
▪ Why was he so determined to deny her the right to reach for her dream?
▪ He, after all, was the one so determined to do away with sham and misunderstanding.
▪ Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
still
▪ The second period saw no let-up from either side with both still determined to play 15-man rugby.
▪ The shaman was still determined to resist and encouraged the growing unrest among the warriors.
▪ Nicholson returned to the bosom of his friends, somewhat dejected but still determined.
very
▪ Above all, Marianella will be remembered as a very brave and very determined woman.
▪ Orc war boar riders are rough, tough and very determined.
▪ You may find that you have to be very determined and repeat your message several times.
▪ It wouldn't have stopped anything very determined, and it had no chance with Jekub.
▪ She's very determined and that was her way of coping.
▪ This was just a back seat and very determined to stay that way.
■ NOUN
effort
▪ For the sake of your health make a determined effort to stop smoking.
▪ Had her shyly determined efforts to be friendly with the other quieter girls like herself been so thoroughly misinterpreted?
▪ With a determined effort she blanked her mind, raising the mug to her lips.
▪ In other words, the subjects were making determined efforts to understand the dynamic aspects of the problem.
▪ He blew his nose vigorously, straightened his dressing gown and made a determined effort to regain a measure of composure.
▪ So since 1979 the Conservatives have made a determined effort to curtail local expenditure.
▪ The ballot came after determined efforts to lobby support for him.
▪ While Cato was still alive the Roman governing class made a determined effort to get to know the Celts better.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bound and determined
▪ Klein is bound and determined to win at least five races this year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both sides in the dispute seemed determined not to compromise.
▪ I was determined to be a professional dancer, and practised for hours every day.
▪ I was immediately impressed by how determined he was.
▪ Not many women went to university in those days, but Dorothy was a very determined woman.
▪ She was determined that her children should have the best possible education.
▪ The proposal met with determined opposition from the government.
▪ The world must make a more determined effort to stop the flow of arms to trouble spots.
▪ There's no point in trying to stop her -- it'll only make her more determined.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was prepared, determined, ready.
▪ I also hope all parties will work together in a determined and responsible manner to solve the main problem facing this nation.
▪ I had brought a rifle with me to Abyssinia. determined to achieve my dream of hunting big game.
▪ It sounded determined to break through the glass.
▪ Paul Ince escapes criticism for his usual wholehearted endeavours and determined talking.
▪ The third question was: If everything is determined, what becomes of free will and our responsibility for our actions?
▪ We were determined not to start off with a mortgage round our necks if we could possibly avoid it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Determined

Determine \De*ter"mine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Determined; p. pr. & vb. n. Determining.] [F. d['e]terminer, L. determinare, determinatum; de + terminare limit, terminus limit. See Term.]

  1. To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

    [God] hath determined the times before appointed.
    --Acts xvii. 26.

  2. To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.

    The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.
    --Bacon.

    Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me?
    --Shak.

  3. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.

    The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.
    --J. Edwards.

    Something divinely beautiful . . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life.
    --W. Black.

  4. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course.

  5. To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.

  6. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause.

  7. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.

  8. (Logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.

  9. (Physical Sciences) To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.

Determined

Determined \De*ter"mined\, a. Decided; resolute. ``Adetermined foe.''
--Sparks.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
determined

1560s, "decided," past participle adjective from determine. Meaning "limited" is from c.1600; that of "characterized by resolution" is from c.1600, of actions; 1772, of persons.

Wiktionary
determined

  1. decided; resolute, possessing much determination. v

  2. (en-past of: determine)

WordNet
determined

  1. adj. characterized by great determination; "a struggle against a determined enemy"

  2. having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation [ant: undetermined]

  3. devoting full strength and concentrated attention to; "made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters"

  4. determined or decided upon as by an authority; "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching" [syn: dictated, set]

  5. strongly motivated to succeed [syn: compulsive, driven]

Wikipedia
Determined (song)

"Determined" is the first single from American band Mudvayne's third studio album, Lost and Found.

Usage examples of "determined".

Had it not been for a determined English professor named Arthur Holmes, the quest might well have fallen into abeyance altogether.

Memphis had pursued its winding course through an alluvial country, made when abreast of Vicksburg a sharp turn to the northeast, as though determined to reach the bluffs but four miles distant.

West systematically abused his daughter, as determined to subjugate her as he had been to subjugate Rosemary Letts.

Eads, the engineer, determined to establish the piers and abutments on rock at a depth for the east pier and east abutment of 136 ft.

He still kept his army in Spain, and this proceeding determined Portugal to accede to some slight alterations in the first treaty.

Paris the Pope, who was still at Fontainebleau, determined to accede to an arrangement, and to sign an act which the Emperor conceived would terminate the differences between them.

Tabenne was the well-known signal which assembled several thousand robust and determined monks, who, for the most part, had been the peasants of the adjacent country.

The causes, if they can be determined, should be removed, and those remedies administered which relieve nervous irritability and cerebral congestion.

Now admitting the existence of a living thing that is at once a Thought and its object, it must be a Life distinct from the vegetative or sensitive life or any other life determined by Soul.

Taking hold gently of one of her hands, I told her that she had ignited in my soul a devouring flame, that I adored her, and that, unless some hope was left to me of finding her sensible to my sufferings, I was determined to fly away from her for ever.

And therefore I wander these solitary and desolate places in search of adventures, determined to bring my arm and my person to the most dangerous that fortune may offer, in defense of the weak and helpless.

I determined to dissemble, hoping that I should never see the adventurous lover again, and that thus all would be as if it had never happened.

Mortlake, glancing back a short time before the sea appeared on the horizon, had seen the other aeroplane, and guessing at once what its appearance meant, had determined to keep on, even at the risk of plunging himself and his passenger into the sea.

France, are not willing to make an end of the war, I am determined to act vigorously and aggressively without great delay .

It is probable, however, that neither side actually realized that war was inevitable, and that the other was determined to fight, until the assault on Fort Sumter presented the South as the first aggressor and roused the North to use every possible resource to maintain the government and the imperilled Union, and to vindicate the supremacy of the flag over every inch of the territory of the United States.