Scrutinise vs Scrutiny - What's the difference?
scrutinise | scrutiny |
To examine something with great care.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
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Intense study of someone or something.
* Milton
Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
(obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.
As verbs the difference between scrutinise and scrutiny
is that scrutinise is to examine something with great care while scrutiny is (obsolete|rare) to scrutinize.As a noun scrutiny is
intense study of someone or something.scrutinise
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* scrutinizeVerb
(scrutinis)- Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
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* British English formsscrutiny
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* (l)Noun
(scrutinies)- Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view / And narrower scrutiny .