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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
examiner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
external examination/examiner
medical examiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
external
▪ Testing will be revised soas to add less to teachers' workloads. External examiners may be used more.
▪ The paper is corrected and assessed by the teacher and by one external examiner.
▪ The subject examinations committee discusses moderations by the external examiner which may, of course, affect recommendations published in the examination booklet.
▪ Britain's teachers too would welcome more use of external examiners, to lighten their workload.
▪ Others feel that double marking is essential in order to be fair to students and external examiners.
External examiners External examiners work very hard for the Modular Course and play an important part in the progressive assessment of students.
medical
▪ Some forensic medical examiners, however, are reluctant to prescribe methadone.
▪ Jimmy died of complications of a blow to the stomach, according to the medical examiner.
▪ Surely the most important issue, however, is the training and continuing medical education of forensic medical examiners.
▪ A medical examiner took a smear.
▪ In his body, the medical examiner said, were traces of antidepressants.
▪ The medical examiner has not said whether pepper spray was responsible.
▪ The medical examiner said the cause of death would be further studied, and that full autopsies would be conducted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bank examiner
▪ Students who, in the opinion of the examiners, do not reach the required standard must take the exam again.
▪ The examiner told him to relax and then asked him to turn on the engine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A medical examiner took a smear.
▪ A member of the board of examiners from 1925 to 1952, he took the chair in 1929.
▪ Bank examiners say they track such sales and know the exposure of particular banks to a particular company.
▪ Britain's teachers too would welcome more use of external examiners, to lighten their workload.
▪ It revealed that the main examiners of food labels were women, particularly and those in the higher socio-economic brackets.
▪ On the one hand, the examiner wants to be told nothing that is irrelevant to the question.
▪ The paper is corrected and assessed by the teacher and by one external examiner.
▪ The subject examinations committee discusses moderations by the external examiner which may, of course, affect recommendations published in the examination booklet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Examiner

Examiner \Ex*am"in*er\, n. One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
examiner

early 14c., examinour, agent noun from examine.

Wiktionary
examiner

n. 1 A person who investigates someone or something. 2 A person who marks an examination.

WordNet
examiner
  1. n. someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications [syn: tester, quizzer]

  2. an investigator who observes carefully; "the examiner searched for clues" [syn: inspector]

Wikipedia
Examiner

Examiner or The Examiner can refer to:

Usage examples of "examiner".

It is also suggested that the fingerprint examiner wear rubber gloves when using acetone, benzine, xylene, formaldehyde, potassium hydroxide, or sodium hydroxide.

Consequently, the archbishop promulgated an act, in which he deprived the fathers of the Society of the privilege of preaching throughout the archbishopric, of the titles of synodal examiners, and of active and passive right of assembly with the secular priests and the orders both in public acts and in other functions, in consideration of the fact that they refused to concur in the defense of the rights of the ecclesiastical estate.

Medical Examiner accept my verdict of death due to an accidental overdose of barbital and avoid the additional unpleasantness of an autopsy.

There was no redness or swelling around the entry site, so the medical examiner concluded that based on the apparent symptoms, the death was from natural causes.

A psychological examiner raised the possibility of a bipolar, or manic-depressive, disorder.

And he spoke like an examiner who was confident that he could floor his examinee in viva voce.

A heavy, rough-spoken man with a thick mustache and even thicker glasses, Fawcett was one of the ten medical examiners assigned to perform autopsies in Manhattan.

His name is David Krane, and he is a hot-shot medical examiner in Seattle.

State Board of Behavioral Science examiners, because state licensure is involved.

Harry Mincer, a consultant in forensic odontology to the medical examiner of Shelby County, Tennessee, testified that he did not believe the marks were from a human bite.

Fidelma was turning away when she realized someone else was staring, but this time the object of scrutiny was Sister Necht herself and the examiner was the pudgy-featured Brother Rumann.

I could see Craig Fleisher, the oncall medical examiner, walking toward us.

Phoenix or Tucson for autopsies, but now, Pinal County had its own medical examiner with a state-of-the-art facility right in Casa Grande.

Office, which, at the time of the West Memphis investigation, had lost its accreditation by the National Association of Medical Examiners.

Due to geography, and to its physical layout, the Charlotte branch, dubbed the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner, was chosen for the processing of specimens collected at the incident morgue in Bryson City.