Invested vs Determine - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between invested and determine

is that invested is (invest) while determine is .

invested

English

Verb

(head)

(invest)

invest

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) investir, from (etyl) ; see vest.

Verb

(en verb)

(dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :

He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.

(obsolete) To put on (clothing).

* Spenser

cannot find one this girdle to invest

To envelop, wrap, cover.

* 1667': Night / '''Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 207-8

To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.

We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.

To ceremonially install someone in some office.

To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

* Shakespeare

I do invest you jointly with my power.

To formally give (power or authority).

* Francis Bacon

It investeth a right of government.

To surround, accompany, or attend.

* Hawthorne

awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt

To lay siege to.

to invest a town

To make investments.

(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

Derived terms

* investable * investor * investment

Etymology 2

From , by shortening

Noun

(en noun)

(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

Anagrams

determine

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

(determin)

To set the limits of.

* Bible, Acts xvii. 26

[God] hath determined the times before appointed.

* Francis Bacon

The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.

To ascertain definitely; to figure out.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine . The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}

To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.

* J. Edwards

The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.

* W. Black

something divinely beautiful that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life

To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to .

Someone else's will determined me to this course.

To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.

The court has determined the cause.

To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.

The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.

(logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.

(obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

* Shakespeare

Now, where is he that will not stay so long / Till his friend sickness hath determined me?

Derived terms

{{der3, determinant , determination , determiner , determinism , determinist , overdetermine , underdetermine}}

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