Appraise vs Evaluates - What's the difference?
appraise | evaluates |
To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
To estimate; to conjecture.
To praise; to commend.
(evaluate)
to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
(mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
To return or have a specific value.
* 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
* 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
As verbs the difference between appraise and evaluates
is that appraise is to set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels or appraise can be (proscribed) to apprise, inform while evaluates is .appraise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (English precious), from which also appreciate.Verb
(apprais)Derived terms
() * appraisal * appraisee * appraisement * appraiser * appraisingly * appraisive * appraiseable * appraiseabilityEtymology 2
Incorrect form of apprise.evaluates
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Verb
(head)evaluate
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Verb
(evaluat)- It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
- Evaluate this polynomial.
- Since element (15.1) evaluates' to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to ' evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
- In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.
