to determine
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3.1
- verb
- /dɪˈtɜːrmɪn/
:
determinar
- Your actions, your deeds, your thoughts determine who's sitting in the passenger seat.
- determining factors
- determine the future
- determine success
Because the master determines that for the slave.
- Because the master determines that for the slave.
- Like what you eat determines how you look, right?
- Those two determine how our body clocks work.
- Your actions, your deeds, your thoughts determine who's sitting in the passenger seat.
- How you react to bad news will determine if you work with them again.
- It means not determined by anything, right?
- And only you can determine which place you're in.
- My reality determines how happy I am.
- And that can, that can determine whether you progress or you don't.
- This is huge in determining the the outcome of battles.
- These are all things that determine the quality of your relationship.
- And don't worry, share prices are determined by a variety of forces.
- But how you deal with it determines the outcome that you achieve from it.
- But the what is it that determines the gas in this room?
Examples
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Now there are tests that can determine if you're likely to have one.
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How you react to bad news will determine if you work with them again.
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The performance in those games will determine the players' numbers.
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There is a very simple way to determine if I am being paranoid here.
Fiction book (1991) -
Surviving family members determine how far the surgeries will go.
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First-year teachers should be informed of the factors that will determine their first teaching position.
Academic text (1999) -
Their actions in doing so effectively determine the nature and destiny of Jewishness in Europe.
Academic text (1999) -
How they wield this power determines the fate of those under their authority.
Academic text (2011) -
In addition, nursing leaders must determine how social justice advocacy can be operationalized and remunerated.
Academic text (2011) -
The team's performance will determine who qualifies for the finals of the tournament.
Synonyms
∞
1.9
To decide a rule, value or deadline
591
2.2
To change how people and things think, act, or develop
417
1.1
To make something end in a certain way
328
3.4
To influence how a person or thing develops
319
4.1
To show something is true using evidence
215
4.6
To think something is a certain way
187
1.8
To choose between different options after thinking
82
3.7
To control the amount, speed, or way something happens
42
3.6
To help form someone's character or ideas
3
5.1
Decide and set something before it is needed
How Influential
Surface Forms
Etymology
Determine comes from Latin parts de- and terminus, where terminus means 'boundary' or 'end', like term or terminal. That's why when we say something 'determines' an outcome, it means it 'sets the limits' that shape how things happen.