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Triage vs Evaluate - What's the difference?

triage | evaluate |

As verbs the difference between triage and evaluate

is that triage is to assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.

As a noun triage

is assessment or sorting according to quality.

triage

English

(wikipedia triage)

Noun

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  • Assessment or sorting according to quality.
  • * '>citation
  • * 2007 , Jeremy Harding, It Migrates to Them'', ''London Review of Books 29:5, p. 26,
  • [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.
  • (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
  • (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
  • Verb

    (triag)
  • To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 01, author=Linda Diebel, title=Existential crises and a rage to save the Liberals, work=Toronto Star citation
  • , passage=Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged " as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton. }}

    Anagrams

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    evaluate

    English

    Verb

    (evaluat)
  • to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
  • It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
  • (mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
  • Evaluate this polynomial.
  • To return or have a specific value.
  • * 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
  • Since element (15.1) evaluates' to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to ' evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
  • * 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
  • In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.

    Derived terms

    * evaluator * evaluatee