Examine vs Examination - What's the difference?
examine | examination |
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.
The act of examining.
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, title= Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
A formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to text books or the like.
Examination is a related term of examine.
As a verb examine
is to observe or inspect carefully or critically.As a noun examination is
the act of examining.examine
English
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-examineexamination
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(wikipedia examination)Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}