Examine vs Undersee - What's the difference?
examine | undersee |
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 see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
*1938 , Saturday review of literature: Volume 18:
To look intently into; examine; inspect.
*1978 , Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia :
To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.
*2002 , Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me :
*2010 , Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion :
*2011 , Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One :
Undersee is a synonym of examine.
As verbs the difference between examine and undersee
is that examine is to observe or inspect carefully or critically while undersee is to see or look under or below; see below the surface of.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-examineundersee
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Verb
- Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: "You have to undersee' the shine." Ken has a remarkable ability to "' undersee the shine." He is not deceived by surfaces.
- At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles "underseeing " civilian ministers.
- But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw , the niggling details of their mass production.
- Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee ) the execution of his dirty work.
- Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee ” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]
