Inspect vs Diagnosis - What's the difference?
inspect | diagnosis |
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
To view and examine officially.
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, chapter=6 (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
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The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
* Compton Reade
* J. Payn
(taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.
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As a verb inspect
is to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.As a noun diagnosis is
(medicine) the identification of the nature and cause of an illness.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”. […]’.}}
Derived terms
* inspector * inspectionAnagrams
* *diagnosis
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Noun
(diagnoses)citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.
- My diagnosis of his character proved correct.
- The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.