Crossword clues for examine
examine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
examine
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a doctor examines sb
▪ The doctor examined her and said she had a chest infection.
consider/examine/study the evidence
▪ Having considered all the evidence, the court found him not guilty.
examine a patient
▪ Can you please wait outside while the physician examines the patient.
examine the facts
▪ I decided to examine the facts for myself.
examine wreckage
▪ Forensic experts were yesterday examining the wreckage.
examine/consider/study sth in detail
▪ He asked his lawyer to examine the contract in detail.
look at/consider/examine an aspect
▪ Managers were asked to look at every aspect of their work.
look at/examine etc sth in context
▪ Although this does not seem to be a good result, let’s examine it in context.
study/examine the implications
▪ He has studied the implications of recent technical innovations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades.
▪ Special preconceptual care designed to reduce the incidence of congenital malformation is also examined from this point of view.
▪ The Select Committee on Energy has also examined the proposals in considerable depth, and the Government welcome its report.
▪ It also examines the comparative merit of centralized and decentralized management.
▪ The research also examines the perception and evaluation of health and safety problems and goals by trade union representatives.
▪ Age of the person being examined also plays a role in the way the signs present themselves and are interpreted.
▪ The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues.
▪ They also examine heroism, and its limits.
carefully
▪ I carefully examined every photograph in minute detail through a magnifying glass so as not to miss a thing.
▪ The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
▪ You must reach behind the form or wording of the question, dismantle it and carefully examine each part. 1.
▪ In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.
▪ A number of questions - not all of them obvious - need to be examined carefully, and from all possible angles.
▪ The feed is examined carefully, and at the slaughterhouse any bird with an appearance of disease is discarded.
▪ But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.
▪ The joints should be carefully examined for effusion, limitation of motion, or deformities.
how
▪ Linda Watson examines how design has defined the female figure and shows how women have often suffered in the name of fashion.
▪ This chapter examines how the courts have applied these principles in cases involving teachers.
▪ You may wish to consider the nature of its nationalisation programme and critically examine how radical or socialist it was.
▪ Chapter 6 examines how school-to-work can contribute to the broader school-reform movement that has been growing over the past decade.
▪ It was recently reviewed and guidance was issued, but we shall examine how that guidance has been used.
▪ The movie examines how poverty and oppression can ruin a people.
▪ Among other things, we shall have to examine how far the hopes and claims of librarians match up to present realities.
▪ The council voted 5-2 to examine how Colorado and Oregon have handled the background check loophole.
■ NOUN
aspect
▪ Although we will not examine the technical aspects of these standards, it is important to identify briefly the most important initiatives.
▪ It's not a long course, but it will examine every aspect of technique with every club in the bag.
▪ Their purpose is to examine different aspects of the relationship between law and accountancy.
▪ We shall now proceed to examine these two aspects of the problem in detail.
▪ If, however, one wished to explore the immediate outside it might be necessary to examine specific aspects in detail.
▪ This module provides a research framework to help teachers examine some aspect of their own professional development.
▪ It is worth examining certain aspects of Joni's art, in order to understand this leap in skill.
▪ This special report examines all aspects of the link between the business and the community, including the effect on the environment.
body
▪ They went up the ladder and examined the body in the hay.
▪ While touring the Accord plant, we stopped to examine the body shells as they enter the production line.
▪ Amiss stayed hidden in his enclosure, nervously examining his body for signs of damage.
▪ She examined the body as best she could without touching it, its contorted features being a suitable disincentive to touch it.
▪ An hour later it was Teesdale's duty to examine the body, and again everything was normal.
▪ As he examined the body, Teesdale had a very strange feeling.
▪ Rachaela examined her face and body.
case
▪ The law operates retrospectively on the basis of precedent, examining each individual case on its merits.
▪ The Chronicle examined in detail 27 cases in Houston and Harris County involving violent or repeat offenders on dual supervision.
▪ The same report examined individual cases.
▪ In order to understand this rule, it helps to examine a particular case.
▪ As we are examining the case of sequential retrieval before additions, the items given above do not include overflow retrieval.
▪ The Central Policy Review Staff were asked to examine the case for electrification.
▪ We now proceed to examine some simple cases.
change
▪ It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades.
▪ Having noted this, the figures for Anderson's turn-length are worth examining as evidence of change in his conversational behaviour.
▪ The rest of the extract then examines how changes in the style of policing and law enforcement affect criminal statistics.
▪ The research will include case studies of 20 schools in three local education authorities, examining change as it occurs.
▪ Using the results obtained on page 279, we can examine the effect of changes in a 3 induced by the tax.
▪ The paired t test was used to examine changes over the trial period within each group.
▪ This project aims to examine changes in alcohol treatment policy from the inception of the National Health Service to the 1980's.
▪ Several appropriate datasets are being examined for further temporal changes.
chapter
▪ In the next chapter we examine why the public sector may wish to produce private goods.
▪ In this chapter we examine the prominent modes of actual political behavior of individuals.
▪ In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
▪ The purpose of this chapter is to examine the what, why, how and where of deceptive behavior in organizations.
▪ This chapter begins by examining these informal relations and assesses their importance in terms of our understanding of how organisations operate.
▪ This chapter will examine this federal law.
▪ This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
▪ Initially, this chapter examines and distinguishes two crucial concepts, state and nation.
committee
▪ The Select Committee that examined the Bill took a very close interest in and sought several undertakings about groundwater.
▪ After the 1999 legislative battle, the university system's Board of Regents appointed a committee to examine collective bargaining.
▪ Following the 1987 general election, Margaret Thatcher set up and headed a small committee to examine the health service.
▪ I hope that the Committee will examine the Bill carefully.
▪ The Wilson Committee examined this issue.
▪ It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution.
▪ The House should be grateful to him and for what his Committee does in examining statutory instruments.
▪ The government argued that select committees could examine the actions of civil servants but not their conduct.
data
▪ An Inspector window lets you examine the data of a selected type, including its methods and properties if its a class.
▪ Teams of archaeologists working for the government went along the river examining sites and recording data.
▪ If we examine these data for gender differences, we see that at all levels women earn considerably less than men.
▪ Management should first examine the data produced to ascertain whether any variance from the breakdown is due to site conditions or mismanagement.
▪ Using graphs to analyse your data is easier than examining the data cell-by-cell.
▪ No-one appears to have questioned this claim, examined the data, or checked whether any experiment had even been done.
▪ The first school of thought tended to examine data on outcomes in order to find an explanation.
detail
▪ Some of the applications will be examined in more detail in subsequent chapters.
▪ Let us examine each component in detail.
▪ Indeed, manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail.
▪ The Chronicle examined in detail 27 cases in Houston and Harris County involving violent or repeat offenders on dual supervision.
▪ A public inquiry would be able to examine those figures in detail.
▪ The redistributional effects of transfers will be examined in more detail in Chapter 37.
▪ Neither was I told to examine in minute detail, every blade of grass that my kit was to come in contact with.
▪ This point will be examined in detail in later sections.
doctor
▪ The doctor examined her, found a faint pulse, and immediately swung into action to resuscitate the patient.
▪ Prosecutors want their doctors to examine Kaczynski to help prepare for the possible mental-defect defense.
▪ A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours.
▪ A doctor came and examined me.
▪ They have even sent Department of Health doctors around to examine her to see if she is too ill to travel.
▪ Of all the doctor factors examined, only doctors who professed a special interest in diabetes achieved significantly better glycaemic control.
▪ Without speaking to doctors or examining Anna without clothes, they let her go.
▪ Then the doctor arrived and examined her gravely.
effect
▪ We shall examine this effect of individual speaker's topics in the next section.
▪ A range of possible values for each variable should be examined for effects on results. 9.
▪ Academic research tells us that this rarely happens perfectly and so we need to examine the effects of the policy in practice.
▪ The budget in this context gives the management the opportunity to examine the overall effect of operating decisions.
▪ Using a nationally representative sample, this study examines the effects on family life of elderly persons in the household.
▪ An experiment was performed to examine this effect.
▪ The answers to these questions will give a range of data which may be examined in relation to the literary effect of each passage.
▪ In all three approaches, we have examined the effects on money national income of changes in the money supply.
evidence
▪ In the next section we examine the evidence.
▪ We are continuing to examine evidence and following up on a substantial amount of information that we are receiving.
▪ This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ After examining such evidence, the Oregon court agreed with the teacher that the contract was not divisible into two parts.
▪ Having noted this, the figures for Anderson's turn-length are worth examining as evidence of change in his conversational behaviour.
▪ Your first step is to examine existing evidence that is relevant to the issue you are analyzing.
▪ Wearing my competition hat, I shall be happy to examine any evidence which suggests that competition is not fair.
extent
▪ In particular, it will examine the extent to which questions concerning women and power have become part of mainstream political sociology.
▪ First, they examine the extent to which different presidential systems are likely to experience democratic breakdown.
▪ She stared at him without speaking, examining the extent of the damage.
▪ The research will examine the extent to which reductions in naval strengths can become part of the wider negotiated arms control process.
▪ It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution.
▪ The first phase of the research examines the extent to which differences in memory and inferential skills contribute to comprehension difficulties.
▪ The project is intended to begin to explore these possibilities by examining the extent to which expert systems can acquire human expertise.
impact
▪ This exhibition examines his impact not only on the visual arts but also on literature and science.
▪ Later, I will examine the impact of terrain, in its military definition, on operations.
▪ This project will examine the social impact of these changes on the structure and standards of the people.
▪ The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.
▪ It is more appropriate to examine the impact of aid programmes and projects in aggregate on a particular country.
▪ This study deliberately examined the impact of the projects under normal classroom conditions.
▪ This examines the impact of deregulation and advances in technology on the operations of financial firms.
implication
▪ The project will look at recreational drug use and examine the implications for agencies working with young people.
▪ Finally, we examine the efficiency implications of taxation.
▪ It will examine the implications for self reliant development.
▪ This paper is addressed to examining the implications of this technological innovation.
▪ The project aims to examine the implications of this state of affairs for macroeconomic activity.
▪ Once again, however, the ability of politicians and economists to conceptualise well outran their inclination to examine and analyse practical implications.
▪ A study is being conducted in two rural areas to examine the implications of these changes.
issue
▪ Everyone who has examined the issue with any professional respectability thinks that the Secretary of State is simply off his head.
▪ One way to explore this question is to examine the issue of when the problem begins.
▪ The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues.
▪ In examining the issue of the working poor, it is essential to examine the poverty line.
▪ One way to examine the issue is to consider the possible effect on the health of unemployed people.
▪ So the league set up a second task force, to examine the quality issue.
▪ The purpose of this paper is to examine further the issue of open adoption or adoption with contact.
▪ He also proposes a bipartisan commission to examine the issue as the best politically possible way to change the system.
nature
▪ In this chapter, we shall examine the nature of these two concepts and estimate their value for teachers.
▪ Let us now examine the nature of poverty in the United States during the mid-1990s.
▪ The chapter's main aim is to examine the nature of that crossroads and how best to analyse it.
▪ First, it's best if we examine the nature of the service.
▪ Pearson also examines the recurrent nature of different explanations of the criminal question.
▪ Let us try to examine the nature of this Newtonian determinism a little more closely.
▪ Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature, presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest.
▪ We shall examine the nature of these accounts during the next two chapters.
policy
▪ This relationship should be borne in mind when we examine monetary policy in the next two chapters.
▪ Another task is to initiate research of particular relevance to policy issues and to examine existing and proposal policy initiatives on employment.
▪ We will shortly examine the policies which have been adopted to restrict the degree of monopoly power exercised by large firms.
▪ In this section, extracts examine the policy behind the law, the statutory rules and then the cases.
▪ In the light of this, it examines trade-union policies and strategies formulated towards training and retraining programmes.
▪ One way of assessing the government's radical intent is to examine its policies towards the provision of private health care.
▪ I invite them to examine the Opposition's policies to see how they would fare under a Labour Government.
▪ It is also necessary to examine what studying social policy implies.
problem
▪ Michele Hanson examines the problems imposed by budget cuts and staff shortages, and looks at the need for long-term strategies.
▪ In a later chapter, I will examine this problem more fully.
▪ The project will also examine the methodological problems associated with using institutional records as sources for wage and price data.
▪ Before we examine these problems one important question of method must be noted.
▪ The next two chapters examine this problem in more detail.
▪ The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail.
▪ John Illman examines the problems they are facing.
▪ In general, we will examine problems having p linear objective functions,, which we wish to maximise subject to linear constraints.
process
▪ Yet when we examine this restorative process in operation, we observe considerable redistributive exercises taking place.
▪ But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.
▪ In our study, we are going to examine the process and products of this transformation with reference to first impressions.
▪ The primary research aim is to examine processes involved in peer tutoring.
▪ This chapter examines the processes of revenue raising, allocation, spending and control.
▪ Thus many non-relevant documents will have been retrieved and examined in the process of sifting relevant from non-relevant.
▪ This study is examining the managerial process by which organisations develop a market-orientation.
project
▪ The project will also examine the methodological problems associated with using institutional records as sources for wage and price data.
▪ This project will examine the social impact of these changes on the structure and standards of the people.
▪ This project will examine the economic, political, legal and technological issues at stake with cars and electronics as case studies.
▪ This project has examined the current level of industrial and governmental activity on the area of clean technology.
▪ This project will examine the evidence for the world economy in the inter- war period.
▪ This project is designed to examine some of these effects by focussing upon the Lake District in particular.
▪ Our project examines these allegations of failure.
question
▪ A number of research projects have now examined this question, and a number of conclusions have begun to emerge.
▪ This task force could examine the broader question of what types of projects should require voter approval.
▪ This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
▪ They can examine that question in any way they think is best.
▪ This chapter examines the question of what, precisely, is an overseas trust.
▪ The discussion now turns to key examples from comparative politics that have examined these important questions.
▪ Burman uses representations of the self to examine questions around race, gender and sexuality.
record
▪ The problems this has given rise to are compounded when one examines our import record.
▪ For controls, they used the same drivers, examining their phone records from the day preceding the accident.
▪ It is of course an impossible task to examine the record of Marxism in such a short space as I have available.
▪ We must now examine his record.
▪ Our principal approach is to examine in detail the records of scores of banks operating in the period.
▪ The commission, they agreed, must produce a report that would examine the record and rationale of dams.
▪ But before we look at that we must first turn to examine the record in a little more detail.
▪ There are a number of opportunities in the Parliamentary year to examine the Government's record.
relationship
▪ This study examines the relationships between different sectors of the local economy, especially the nature and permeability of sector boundaries.
▪ Rational economic and financial analysis will be vital in presenting proposals, examining relationships between strategic subsystems, and so on.
▪ It examines the relationship between fertility histories and household labour availability, and the consequences for labour intensive techniques of environmental management.
▪ The compulsory element examines the relationship between feminist ideas, feminist practice, and theory and methodology in the social sciences.
▪ It also examines the relationships between these bodies and those that are the subjects of evaluation, as well as with central government departments.
▪ Finally, apart from one small reference, the analysis never examines the relationship between collective protest and internal war.
▪ Three of the papers in this collection examine the relationship between these two professions from a historical perspective.
▪ It will also examine firms' external relationships with their markets and customers.
research
▪ The research will examine the behaviour of visitors with regard to group activity and movement within areas commonly used for interview.
▪ The main aim of the research is to examine the interrelationship between the comprehension and production of early vocabulary.
▪ The research aims to examine the relevance of this concept to the future development of two case study areas in Co Fermanagh.
▪ The research will first examine the issues theoretically and then, where feasible, with the aid of existing macroeconomic models.
▪ The research will examine the extent to which reductions in naval strengths can become part of the wider negotiated arms control process.
▪ The research examines this conclusion since it is at variance with rational economic planning.
▪ The research will begin to examine not only how people use maps, but also how they create them.
role
▪ Age of the person being examined also plays a role in the way the signs present themselves and are interpreted.
▪ The study will examine the role NGOs and the institutional relationships between them and governments.
▪ In addition, one unit specifically examines the role of economic change in shaping the state.
▪ Tonight, in his third report Mike Rowbottom examines the role of the staff in Inside Story.
▪ In the longitudinal part of the enquiry, the investigators examined the possible causal role of support.
▪ That is why we examine the expanded role of all-purpose authorities.
section
▪ In the next section we examine the evidence.
▪ My application went through a committee of peers, a so-called study section, which examines hundreds of proposals.
▪ In this section we examine the economics of local government.
▪ The purpose of this section is also to examine qualitative considerations.
▪ In this section, we examine how these forces affect governments' role in the provision of education.
▪ In this section, extracts examine the policy behind the law, the statutory rules and then the cases.
▪ In this section we examine the contribution to the crisis that has been made by the sentencing decisions of the courts.
▪ In the first of the book's three sections Kemp examines the theory and practice of perspective from Brunelleschi to Turner.
structure
▪ The object of this research is to examine the structure of public opinion about state and private welfare services.
▪ In this chapter, we will examine the logical structure of these statements in more detail.
▪ It is hard to examine the exquisite structure of a comb, so beautifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic admiration.
▪ If an architect examined a Gothic structure by reference to Grecian rules, he would find it a mass of deformities.
▪ My mind began to play tricks, and I just assumed he was examining the snow structure for some reason.
▪ From these data it will be possible to examine the social structure and processes that occur within a particular industry.
▪ An important issue when examining urban employment structures is that of the varying performances of different sectors of employment.
▪ This allows the engineers to examine every piece of structure and all the systems in detail in a methodical manner.
study
▪ The study will examine the role NGOs and the institutional relationships between them and governments.
▪ All three studies examined a population which was quite different from that of the randomized clinical trials or the quasi-experimental studies.
▪ This study examines these contrasts in detail, at a period when the Stock Exchange in London is introducing great reforms.
▪ One study conducted in 1980 examined seven economic-demographic models constructed to project the future of food and resource supplies and pollution levels.
▪ Using a nationally representative sample, this study examines the effects on family life of elderly persons in the household.
▪ This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
▪ The aim of this study was to examine whether endogenous eicosanoids play a role in controlling cyclosporin A induced toxicity.
▪ Despite the consistency of the socioeconomic differences in sickness absence no studies have examined possible explanations for them.
ways
▪ The viability of the new mechanism can be examined in several ways.
▪ Thursday, Vacco announced a new statewide commission to examine ways of improving the quality of care for the dying.
▪ It is in examining the ways in which these problems of need and use are practically organized, in specific social orders.
▪ Current work in neural networks is examining ways to reduce the size of the training set required.
▪ We will examine ways in which the uniform scope of regulation could be eased to safeguard traditional local products or practices.
▪ This chapter examines different ways of exercising power.
▪ In addition we will examine ways of giving those who retire with lump sum payments more choice as to how their savings are invested.
▪ In formulating a view, it is helpful to examine this in two ways.
■ VERB
begin
▪ In this chapter we shall begin by examining these concerns in some detail.
▪ The discovery came after analysts began examining debris taken to the lab from the Oklahoma City bombing site.
▪ Indeed in the 1960s, other reasons for depopulation, notably settlement size, began to be examined.
▪ In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.
▪ Pupils might begin by examining their area about 50 years ago.
▪ But let us begin by examining the term theory.
▪ This chapter begins by examining these informal relations and assesses their importance in terms of our understanding of how organisations operate.
▪ How can sociologists begin to examine these trends?
let
▪ Before we consider each of these offences in outline, let us examine the practical and theoretical foundations for them.
▪ With these considerations in mind, let us examine recent welfare legislation at both the state and federal levels.
▪ But first let us examine the facts and then ensure that we are looking after our physical selves as well as possible.
▪ But first let us examine the rebel tradition.
▪ Focussing on one tiny segment of the statistics of abundance, let us examine corporation presidents and millionaires.
▪ On the Economic Front Let us now examine some of the elements of the new situation in somewhat greater detail.
▪ But how does it work? Let us examine the case of just two banks, say Lloyds and Midland.
▪ But let us begin by examining the term theory.
need
▪ Once a set of goals has been established we need to examine whether these goals are being accomplished.
▪ We need to examine each sheet of adjectives and rework as many of the negatives into positives as we can.
▪ Consequently both perspectives need to be examined when considering what people understand and mean by terms such as health.
▪ Consumers need to examine all their new credit cards and dispute anything that hasn't been authorized.
▪ We need time to examine fully the findings of the Select Committee and to give our response.
▪ In addition to the development of new vehicles and systems, other key components of commercial transactions need to be examined.
▪ The issue you need to examine, then, is trust.
▪ Maybe you need your head examined.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A team of investigators is examining the crash site.
▪ Before buying an antique, examine it closely to avoid buying a fake.
▪ Experts who examined the painting believe it is genuine.
▪ Her new book examines the causes of social discontent.
▪ I'm going to the hospital tomorrow to have my knee examined again.
▪ Several hotels have examined ways to provide better access to wheelchair users.
▪ Students will be examined on all aspects of Russian literature and history.
▪ The doctor examined her, but didn't find anything wrong.
▪ The police will examine the weapon for fingerprints.
▪ The video shows women how to examine their breasts for cancer.
▪ To save time, students will be examined in groups of three.
▪ When the police examined the gun, they found Wright's fingerprints on it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As this is the case, part of the research will examine various experimental techniques used previously in studies on word recognition.
▪ Current work in neural networks is examining ways to reduce the size of the training set required.
▪ He looked, he thought as he examined himself in the mirror, more than usually hideous.
▪ Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period.
▪ The body was thoroughly examined by physicians, who declared that no chemicals had been used to preserve it.
▪ The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.
▪ This is seen by examining the function W1 which, according to the arguments given above, predicts the presence of oscillations.
▪ Thursday, Vacco announced a new statewide commission to examine ways of improving the quality of care for the dying.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Examine
Examine \Ex*am"ine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Examined; p. pr. & vb. n. Examining.] [L. examinare, examinatum, fr. examen, examinis: cf. F. examiner. See Examen.]
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To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.
Examine well your own thoughts.
--Chaucer.Examine their counsels and their cares.
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To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.
The offenders that are to be examined.
--Shak.Syn: To discuss; debate; scrutinize; search into; investigate; explore. See Discuss.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
examine
c.1300, from Old French examiner "interrogate, question, torture," from Latin examinare "to test or try; consider, ponder," literally "to weigh," from examen "a means of weighing or testing," probably ultimately from exigere "weigh accurately" (see exact (adj.)). Related: Examined; examining.
Wiktionary
examine
vb. 1 To observe or inspect carefully or critically. 2 To check the health or condition of something or someone. 3 To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination. 4 To interrogate.
WordNet
examine
v. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, canvass, canvas]
observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" [syn: see]
question or examine thoroughly and closely [syn: probe]
question closely
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" [syn: test, prove, try, try out, essay]
Usage examples of "examine".
Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.
Or can we, by examining his case with intelligence and with charity, and then by acting with charity too, begin to help all abused children, including his own, to free themselves from the burden of their childhood?
When figure 188 is examined, it will be noticed that the recurve is spoiled by the appendage abutting upon it between the shoulders at a right angle, so it must also be classified with the tented arches.
If examined closely the pattern will be seen to have an appendage abutting at a right angle between the shoulders of each possible recurve.
And yet none of these things purifies man at all unless he examines himself, sees his sins, acknowledges them, condemns himself on account of them, and repents by desisting from them, and does all this as of himself, yet with the acknowledgment in heart that he does so from the Lord.
I examined the actress on the stage, and finding that she was not without beauty I expressed a wish to know her.
This case involved the validity of an act of Congress directing the judge of the territorial court of Florida to examine and adjudge claims of Spanish subjects against the United States and to report his decisions with evidence thereon to the Secretary of the Treasury who in turn was to pay the award to the claimant if satisfied that the decisions were just and within the terms of the treaty of cession.
Such were the remonstrances made to his catholic majesty with respect to the illegality of the prize, which the French East India company asserted was taken within shot of a neutral port, that the Penthievre was first violently wrested out of the hands of the captors, then detained as a deposit, with sealed hatches, and a Spanish guard on board, till the claims of both parties could be examined, and at last adjudged to be an illegal capture, and consequently restored to the French, to the great disappointment of the owners of the privateer.
The science people had set up their computers under a tarp next to the admin building, and were examining the data crystals of shuttle activity before communications from the planet ceased.
She forced herself to leave that idyllic picture to examine the rest of the adobe house.
They will find that this same procedure will be of the greatest value in the period of change that lies ahead, the years of adolescence, which we examine in the next chapter.
Upon this subject, then, I will only say, that the present state of the law shall be carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with reference to the recent assumption of power deliberately considered.
If a man examines only the external he sees only what he has committed to deed, and that he has not murdered or committed adultery or stolen or borne false witness, and so on.
After we examined the advertising, sales promotion, public relations and direct marketing, we discovered that nowhere in their communication was anything that offered the customers comfort, excitement and innovation.
Youll also examine the quality of the editorial environment in which your advertising will appear.