to predetermine
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5.8
- verb
- /ˌpriːdɪˈtɜːrmɪn/
:
predeterminar
- The grade 8 teacher focused on helping all students use predetermined procedures.
- predetermined outcomes
- predetermined standards
- predetermined criteria
I want to consume them, and bitter and sour are innately predetermined to be aversive.
- I want to consume them, and bitter and sour are innately predetermined to be aversive.
- However, the, the, the question for me is the definition is what predetermines the outcome, right?
- And Einstein said, well, yeah, in some sense that's true, that even mass murderers were predetermined.
- In the cecum is where all these bacterial colonies live and and they're all predetermined again by your genetics, by your epigenetics.
- Do you think people should have the right to the liberty to choose their own profession or either born into some caste that predetermines what they do?
Examples
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Even if I give you the code this thing only opens at predetermined times.
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The number of free throws made was then used to handicap the participants using predetermined guidelines.
Academic text (2008) -
Students work on the cases in predetermined groups of five to six.
Academic text (2015) -
You have predetermined her fate.
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None of these outcomes is predetermined; however, the United States could do much to mitigate them.
Academic text (2012) -
Second, a lesson plan is more of a linear process: a predetermined step 1 followed directly by step 2.
Academic text (2011) -
He says that everything is predetermined, but I like to think of it as fate.
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Essentially, there would be no subsidy unless crude oil prices fell below some predetermined level, say $70.
Academic text (2008) -
Incentives to volunteer were added by awarding a predetermined amount of continuing education credits to the participants.
Academic text (1992) -
The teacher assigned the students to predetermine their project topics before the next class.
Synonyms
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8.1
To think about and plan something before doing it, often a harmful act
8
4.1
To plan something ahead of time
8
8.8
To decide or arrange something before it happens, often by fate
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9.2
To decide in advance, often by fate or God's will
3
5.1
Decide and set something before it is needed
1
9.9
Decide before it happens, often by a higher power
1
7.8
Decide or say something before an event starts
1
9.9
Decide in advance that something will happen, often by fate or God
To agree in advance to give money, time, or help
To make people think or act a certain way beforehand
Get someone ready to respond in a certain way
How Predetermined
23
5.8
∞
1.0
591
2.2
- Informal
6
7.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Predetermine breaks into pre- meaning 'before' and determine meaning 'decide', so to predetermine something is to decide or influence it 'before' it happens.