Inspect vs Appraise - What's the difference?
inspect | appraise |
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
To view and examine officially.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 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.
As verbs the difference between inspect and appraise
is that inspect is to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize while 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.inspect
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Alternative forms
* enspectVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}