Examine vs Evaluate - What's the difference?
examine | evaluate |
To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
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To check the health or condition of something or someone.
To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
To interrogate.
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 examine and evaluate
is that examine is to observe or inspect carefully or critically while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.examine
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Alternative forms
* examin (obsolete)Verb
(examin)- He examined the crime scene for clues.
- She examined the hair sample under a microscope.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The doctor examined the patient.
- The witness was examined under oath.
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Derived terms
* cross-examine, cross examine * examinable * examinee * examiner * examinership * examiningly * re-examineevaluate
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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.