different between examine vs tertiate

English

Alternative forms

• examin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English examinen, examenen, from Old French examiner, from Latin ex?min?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæm?n/
• Hyphenation: ex?am?ine

Verb

examine (third-person singular simple present examines, present participle examining, simple past and past participle examined)

1. to observe or inspect carefully or critically

2. to check the health or condition of something or someone

3. to determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination
4. to interrogate

Synonyms

• pore over, undersee

Hyponyms

• cross examine
• re-examine

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• look at

French

Verb

examine

1. first-person singular present indicative of examiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of examiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of examiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of examiner
5. second-person singular imperative of examiner

Latin

Noun

ex?mine

1. ablative singular of ex?men

Portuguese

Verb

examine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of examinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of examinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of examinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of examinar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?sa?mine/, [e??.sa?mi.ne]

Verb

examine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of examinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of examinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of examinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of examinar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terti?t-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin terti?, from tertius (“third”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûr?sh??t, IPA^(key): /?t????e?t/

Verb

tertiate (third-person singular simple present tertiates, present participle tertiating, simple past and past participle tertiated)

1. Reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
   • 1912 May 3rd, F. Madan, “letter to Sir William [Osler]” quoted by Harvey Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler II (2010), pages 999–1,000

     Seven spills of paper of precisely equal length were given round, and after an interval collected. Had any of them been dimidiated, tertiated or even decimated, the proposed election was void.

   • 1979, Frank Gervasi, The Life and Times of Menahem Begin, page 42

     “The Jews…were not merely decimated, for that means only one in ten of the world’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, but tertiated. One in every three were slaughtered.”

   • 1981, Meron Medzini [ed.], Israel’s Foreign Relations: 1977–1979, page 85

     The Jewish People were not decimated…. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters…it was tertiated.

2. (rare, obsolete) To do or perform for the third time.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

3. (firearms) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

Coordinate terms

• (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): quintate (?), sextate (?), septimate (?), decimate (?), duodecimate (¹???), centesimate (¹????)

Related terms

• tertiary

Anagrams

• attritee

Latin

Verb

terti?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of terti?