Determine vs Determiner - What's the difference?
determine | determiner | Derived terms |
To set the limits of.
* Bible, Acts xvii. 26
* Francis Bacon
To ascertain definitely; to figure out.
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, title= To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
* J. Edwards
* W. Black
To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to .
To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
(logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
(obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.
* Shakespeare
(grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
(grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
* 1901 : Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
Determiner is a derived term of determine.
As a verb determine
is to set the limits of.As a noun determiner is
a member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).determine
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(determin)- [God] hath determined the times before appointed.
- The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.
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- The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.
- something divinely beautiful that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life
- Someone else's will determined me to this course.
- The court has determined the cause.
- The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.
- Now, where is he that will not stay so long / Till his friend sickness hath determined me?
Derived terms
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Noun
(en noun)- The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,