Inspect vs Calibrate - What's the difference?
inspect | calibrate |
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 check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
As verbs the difference between inspect and calibrate
is that inspect is to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize while calibrate is to check or adjust by comparison with a standard.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”. […]’.}}