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determine
English
Alternative forms
- determin (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English determinen, from Old French determiner, French déterminer, from Latin determin?re (“to bound, limit, prescribe, fix, determine”), from de + termin?re (“to limit”), from terminus (“bound, limit, end”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??t??m?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??t?m?n/
Verb
determine (third-person singular simple present determines, present participle determining, simple past and past participle determined)
- To set the boundaries or limits of.
- To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
- To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 259]:
- These dramas may appear purely internal but they are perhaps economically determined … when people think they are being so subtly inventive or creative they merely reflect society's general need for economic growth.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 259]:
- To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
- To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
- To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
- (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- determine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- determine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- determine at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "determine" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 98.
Anagrams
- intermede, nemertide
Galician
Verb
determine
- first-person singular present subjunctive of determinar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of determinar
Ladin
Verb
determine
- first-person singular present indicative of determiner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of determiner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of determiner
- third-person plural present subjunctive of determiner
Portuguese
Verb
determine
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of determinar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of determinar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of determinar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of determinar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [de?termine]
Verb
determine
- third-person singular present subjunctive of determina
- third-person plural present subjunctive of determina
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dete??mine/, [d?e.t?e??mi.ne]
Verb
determine
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of determinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of determinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of determinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of determinar.
determine From the web:
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- what determines stock price
- what determines the function of a specialized cell
- what determines your blood type
aspire
English
Etymology
From Middle English aspiren, from Old French aspirer, from Latin aspirare (“breathe on; approach; desire”). Doublet of aspirate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??spa??(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /??spa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Hyphenation: as?pire
Verb
aspire (third-person singular simple present aspires, present participle aspiring, simple past and past participle aspired)
- (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
- That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
- More pangs and fears than wars or women have:
- 1733, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, London: J. Wilford, Epistle 1, lines 131-132, p. 14,[2]
- Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,
- Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebell:
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 3, Chapter 14, p. 246,[3]
- This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 23, pp. 177-178,[4]
- We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.
- 2014, Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer, London: Atlantic Books, Chapter 2, p. 48,[5]
- His own desire repulsed him. Though if he could not aspire to purity, then he was sufficiently aware of what his mother and certain others might think, not to give in to baseness.
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- (transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
- Synonyms: ascend, mount
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1,[6]
- Mercutio’s dead! / That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
- c. 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, London: Thomas Thorppe, Act I, Scene 1,[7]
- rockes so high / That birds could scarce aspire their ridgy toppes
- c. 1613, John Fletcher, Bonduca, Act IV, Scene 4, in Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, London: Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, p. 65,[8]
- She’s vitious; and your partiall selves confesse, / aspires the height of all impietie:
- (intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall.
- Synonyms: ascend, rise, soar, tower
- c. 1592, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell, 1604, [Scene 8],[9]
- In midst of which a sumptuous Temple stands,
- That threats the starres with her aspiring toppe.
- 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 116,[10]
- As they descended, they saw […] one of the grand passes of the Pyreneáes into Spain, gleaming with its battlements and towers to the splendour of the setting rays, yellow tops of woods colouring the steeps below, while far above aspired the snowy points of the mountains, still reflecting a rosy hue.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” in Graham’s Magazine, Volume 25, No. 6, June, 1844, p. 256,[11]
- Seas that restlessly aspire, / Surging, unto skies of fire;
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, New York: Vintage, 1992, p. 4,[12]
- There is a moonshaped rictus in the streetlamp’s globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
Related terms
- aspirable
- aspiration
- aspirant
- aspirer
- aspiring
Translations
Anagrams
- Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, paires, paries, praise, spirea
Asturian
Verb
aspire
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of aspirar
French
Verb
aspire
- inflection of aspirer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- paires, paries, pariés, repais
Galician
Verb
aspire
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of aspirar
Portuguese
Verb
aspire
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of aspirar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of aspirar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of aspirar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of aspirar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?spire]
Verb
aspire
- third-person singular present subjunctive of aspira
- third-person plural present subjunctive of aspira
Spanish
Verb
aspire
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aspirar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of aspirar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aspirar.
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- what inspires you
- what inspires me
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- what inspired the french revolution
- what inspires people
- what inspired the haitian revolution
- what inspired hinton to write the outsiders
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