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ex·am·ine

(ĭg-zăm′ĭn)

tr.v. ex·am·ined, ex·am·in·ing, ex·am·ines

a. To observe carefully or critically; inspect: examined the room for clues.

b. To study or analyze: examine a tissue sample under a microscope; examine the structure of a novel; examine one's own motives.

2. To test or check the condition or health of: examine a patient.

3. To determine the qualifications, aptitude, or skills of by means of questions or exercises: Students are examined with standardized tests.

4. To question formally, as to elicit facts or information; interrogate: examine a witness under oath. See Synonyms at ask.

[Middle English examinen, from Old French examiner, from Latin exāmināre, from exāmen, a weighing out, from exigere, to weigh out; see exact.]

ex·am′in·a·ble adj.

ex·am′in·er n.

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examine

(ɪɡˈzæmɪn)

vb (tr)

1. to look at, inspect, or scrutinize carefully or in detail; investigate

2. (Education) education to test the knowledge or skill of (a candidate) in (a subject or activity) by written or oral questions or by practical tests

3. (Law) law to interrogate (a witness or accused person) formally on oath

4. (Medicine) med to investigate the state of health of (a patient)

[C14: from Old French examiner, from Latin exāmināre to weigh, from exāmen means of weighing; see examen]

exˈaminable adj

exˌamˈinaˈbility n

exˈaminer n

exˈamining adj

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ex•am•ine

(ɪgˈzæm ɪn)

v.t. -ined, -in•ing.

1. to inspect or scrutinize carefully: to examine merchandise.

2. to observe, test, or investigate (a person's body or any part of it), esp. in order to evaluate general health or determine the cause of illness.

3. to inquire into or investigate: to examine one's motives.

4. to test the knowledge, reactions, or qualifications of (a pupil, candidate, etc.), as by questions.

5. Law. to interrogate regarding conduct or knowledge of facts: to examine a witness.

[1275–1325; < Middle French examiner < Latin exāmināre to weigh, examine, test; see examen]

ex•am′in•a•ble, adj.

ex•am`i•na•to′ri•al (-ə nəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-) adj.

ex•am′in•er, n.

ex•am′in•ing•ly, adv.

examine

Past participle: examined
Gerund: examining

Imperative
examine
examine

Present
I examine
you examine
he/she/it examines
we examine
you examine
they examine

Preterite
I examined
you examined
he/she/it examined
we examined
you examined
they examined

Present Continuous
I am examining
you are examining
he/she/it is examining
we are examining
you are examining
they are examining

Present Perfect
I have examined
you have examined
he/she/it has examined
we have examined
you have examined
they have examined

Past Continuous
I was examining
you were examining
he/she/it was examining
we were examining
you were examining
they were examining

Past Perfect
I had examined
you had examined
he/she/it had examined
we had examined
you had examined
they had examined

Future
I will examine
you will examine
he/she/it will examine
we will examine
you will examine
they will examine

Future Perfect
I will have examined
you will have examined
he/she/it will have examined
we will have examined
you will have examined
they will have examined

Future Continuous
I will be examining
you will be examining
he/she/it will be examining
we will be examining
you will be examining
they will be examining

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been examining
you have been examining
he/she/it has been examining
we have been examining
you have been examining
they have been examining

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been examining
you will have been examining
he/she/it will have been examining
we will have been examining
you will have been examining
they will have been examining

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been examining
you had been examining
he/she/it had been examining
we had been examining
you had been examining
they had been examining

Conditional
I would examine
you would examine
he/she/it would examine
we would examine
you would examine
they would examine

Past Conditional
I would have examined
you would have examined
he/she/it would have examined
we would have examined
you would have examined
they would have examined

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Verb	1.	examine - consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" analyse, analyze, study, canvass, canvas anatomize - analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior" diagnose, name - determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis diagnose - subject to a medical analysis survey, appraise - consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" survey - make a survey of; for statistical purposes compare - examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" check, check into, check out, check over, check up on, suss out, look into, go over - examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine" assay - analyze (chemical substances) reexamine, review - look at again; examine again; "let's review your situation" audit, scrutinise, scrutinize, inspect - examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; "audit accounts and tax returns" screen - examine methodically; "screen the suitcases" trace, follow - follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress" investigate, look into - investigate scientifically; "Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese" sieve, sift - check and sort carefully; "sift the information" look at, view, consider - look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem"
	2.	examine - observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" see search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" x-ray - examine by taking x-rays candle - examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light autopsy - perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem auscultate - examine by auscultation survey - look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates" glance over, scan, skim, rake, run down - examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" scan - examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray" peruse - examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" scrutinise, scrutinize, size up, take stock - to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror" search, look - search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" inspect - look over carefully; "Please inspect your father's will carefully" check - make an examination or investigation; "check into the rumor"; "check the time of the class"
	3.	examine - question or examine thoroughly and closely probe enquire, investigate, inquire - conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady" re-examine - question after cross-examination by opposing counsel; "re-examine one's witness" investigate, look into - investigate scientifically; "Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese" hear, try - examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"
	4.	examine - question closely query, question - pose a question quiz, test - examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" cross examine, cross question - question closely, or question a witness that has already been questioned by the opposing side; "The witness was cross-examined by the defense" catechize, catechise - examine through questioning and answering grill - examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology"
	5.	examine - put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" test, try out, try, essay, prove pass judgment, evaluate, judge - form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" verify, control - check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard; "Are you controlling for the temperature?" float - circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform" field-test - test something under the conditions under which it will actually be used; "The Army field tested the new tanks"

examine

verb

1. inspect, test, consider, study, check, research, review, survey, investigate, explore, probe, analyse, scan, vet, check out, ponder, look over, look at, sift through, work over, pore over, appraise, scrutinize, peruse, take stock of, assay, recce (slang), look at carefully, go over or through He examined her passport and stamped it.

2. check, analyse, check over The doctor examined her, but could find nothing wrong.

3. test, question, assess, quiz, evaluate, appraise, catechize the pressures of being judged and examined by our teachers

4. question, quiz, interrogate, cross-examine, grill (informal), give the third degree to (informal) I was called and examined as a witness.

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examine

verb

1. To look at carefully or critically:

check (out), con, go over, inspect, peruse, scrutinize, study, survey, traverse, view.

Informal: case.

Idiom: give a going-over.

2. To study closely or systematically:

analyze, inspect, investigate.

3. To subject to a procedure that ascertains effectiveness, value, proper function, or other quality:

assay, check, essay, prove, test, try, try out.

Idioms: bring to the test, make trial of, put to the proof.

4. To subject to a test of knowledge or skill:

check, quiz, test.

5. To put a question to (someone):

ask, inquire, query, question, quiz.

Translations

يَخْتَبِريَسْتَجْوِبيَفْحَصيَفْحَصُيَفْحَص بِدِقَّه

vyšetřitzkoumat

undersøgeeksaminereoverhørestudereudspørge

untersuchen vernehmen prüfen

εξετάζω μελετώ

examinar inspeccionar interrogar reconocer ver

tutkia

examiner explorer interroger rechercher surveiller

pregledati

vizsgáztat

athuga, skoîa, kannaprófaprófa, yfirheyrarannsakaskoîa, athuga

esaminare interrogare esame

試験する

조사하다

apklausaapklausinėjimasapklausinėtiapžiūrėjimasegzaminas

apskatīteksaminētizmeklētizpētītpratināt

onderzoeken

avhøre eksaminere granske inspisere undersøke

zbadać

examinar

исследовать осматривать

izprašatipregledatipreveriti

undersöka

ตรวจสอบ

incelemekmuayene etmeksınav/imtihan yapmaksorgulamak

kiểm tra

考试诊察审查审问检查

examine

[ɪgˈzæmɪn] VT

1. [+ student, candidate] → examinar
I was examined in maths → me examinaron de matemáticas

2. (= inspect) [+ premises] → inspeccionar; [+ luggage] → registrar; [+ witness, suspect, accused] → interrogar

3. (= investigate) → estudiar, investigar
we are examining the question → estamos estudiando or investigando la cuestión

4. (Med) [+ patient] → examinar, hacer un reconocimiento médico a; [+ part of body] → examinar

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examine

[ɪgˈzæmɪn] vt

(= look at carefully) → examiner
He examined her passport → Il a examiné son passeport.

[+ patient] → examiner
The doctor examined him → Le docteur l'a examiné.

[+ student] → interroger

[+ witness] → interroger

(= scrutinize) [+ idea, proposal, plan] → examiner; [+ evidence] → examiner

(= inspect) [+ machine, premises] → inspecter

[+ luggage] [person] → fouiller; [machine] → inspecter

examine

(→ auf +acc) → untersuchen; documents, accounts → prüfen; machine, passports, luggage → kontrollieren; you need (to have) your head examined (inf) → du solltest dich mal auf deinen Geisteszustand untersuchen lassen

pupil, candidate → prüfen (→ in in +dat, → on über +acc)

(Med) → untersuchen

(Jur) suspect, accused, witness → verhören

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examine

[ɪgˈzæmɪn] vt (inspect, machine, wreckage) → ispezionare; (luggage, passport) → controllare (Med) → visitare, esaminare; (witness, suspect) → interrogare; (test, pupil, candidate) to examine sb in → esaminare qn in; (orally) → interrogare qn in

examine

(igˈzӕmin) verb

1. to look at closely; to inspect closely. They examined the animal tracks and decided that they were those of a fox.

2. (of a doctor) to inspect the body of thoroughly to check for disease etc. The doctor examined the child and said she was healthy.

3. to consider carefully. The police must examine the facts.

4. to test the knowledge or ability of (students etc). She examines pupils in mathematics.

5. to question. The lawyer examined the witness in the court case.

exˌamiˈnation noun

1. (a) close inspection. Make a thorough examination of the area where the crime took place; On examination the patient was discovered to have appendicitis.

2. (also exˈam) a test of knowledge or ability. school examinations; She is to take a French/dancing exam; (also adjective) examination/exam papers; He failed/passed the English exam.

3. (a) formal questioning (eg of a witness).

exˈaminer noun

a person who examines.

examine

→ يَفْحَصُ zkoumat undersøge untersuchen εξετάζω examinar tutkia examiner pregledati esaminare 試験する 조사하다 onderzoeken undersøke zbadać examinar осматривать undersöka ตรวจสอบ incelemek kiểm tra 考试

examine

vt. examinar, evaluar, investigar, indagar.

examine

vt explorar (form), reconocer (form), examinar, revisar (fam); May I examine your leg?..¿Puedo examinarle la pierna?

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Was there anything more to examine on that side of the room?

In your place I should feel some distrust of anything which I was not at liberty to examine. I think I can set this matter right, however, with very little trouble to either of us.

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Now, I mean by those combinations of government (which I ought to examine into, but have not yet done), namely, whether the deliberative department and the election of magistrates is regulated in a manner correspondent to an oligarchy, or the judicial to an aristocracy, or the deliberative part only to an oligarchy, and the election of magistrates to an aristocracy, or whether, in any other manner, everything is not regulated according to the nature of the government.

And first, we will speak of a democracy; and this will at the same time show clearly the nature of its opposite which some persons call an oligarchy; and in doing this we must examine into all the parts of a democracy, and everything that is connected therewith; for from the manner in which these are compounded together different species of democracies arise: and hence it is that they are more than one, and of various natures.

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Tyrell gave each of his clerks a case to examine. The clerk took the patient into one of the inner rooms; they were smaller, and each had a couch in it covered with black horse-hair: he asked his patient a variety of questions, examined his lungs, his heart, and his liver, made notes of fact on the hospital letter, formed in his own mind some idea of the diagnosis, and then waited for Dr.

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A moment he let his fingers sink deep into the cold flesh, and then, realizing that she was already dead, he turned from her, to examine the contents of the room; nor did he again molest the body of either Lady Alice or Sir John.

Finding that it harmed him not, Kerchak began to examine it closely.

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Betteredge," answered the Sergeant, "if I can tell them I am going to examine the wardrobes of EVERYBODY-- from her ladyship downwards--who slept in the house on Wednesday night.

We must examine all the wardrobes in the house or none.

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Some are known to you, such as the thermometer, which gives the internal temperature of the Nautilus; the barometer, which indicates the weight of the air and foretells the changes of the weather; the hygrometer, which marks the dryness of the atmosphere; the storm-glass, the contents of which, by decomposing, announce the approach of tempests; the compass, which guides my course; the sextant, which shows the latitude by the altitude of the sun; chronometers, by which I calculate the longitude; and glasses for day and night, which I use to examine the points of the horizon, when the Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves."

"If you will allow me, we will examine the stern of the Nautilus."

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"Very good!" said Bagration in reply to the officer's report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended before him.