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Scrutinize vs Scrutinise - What's the difference?

scrutinize | scrutinise | Alternative forms |

Scrutinise is a alternative form of scrutinize.



In transitive terms the difference between scrutinize and scrutinise

is that scrutinize is to audit accounts etc in order to verify them while scrutinise is to audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

scrutinize

English

Alternative forms

* scrutinise (Commonwealth)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To examine something with great care.
    • to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
  • * Ayliffe
    • whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize
  • * G. W. Cable
    • Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
  • To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

    • Related terms

    * inscrutable * scrutineer * scrutiny

    scrutinise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scrutinize

    Verb

    (scrutinis)
  • To examine something with great care.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

    • Anagrams

    * British English forms