evaluate
to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
to judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of; assess: to evaluate the results of an experiment.
Mathematics. to determine or calculate the numerical value of (a formula, function, relation, etc.).
Origin of evaluate
1Other words for evaluate
Other words from evaluate
- e·val·u·a·ble [ih-val-yoo-uh-buhl], /ɪˈvæl yu ə bəl/, adjective
- e·val·u·a·tive, adjective
- e·val·u·a·tor, noun
- mis·e·val·u·ate, verb (used with object), mis·e·val·u·at·ed, mis·e·val·u·at·ing.
- non·e·val·u·a·tive, adjective
- re·e·val·u·ate, verb (used with object), re·e·val·u·at·ed, re·e·val·u·at·ing.
- un·e·val·u·at·ed, adjective
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How to use evaluate in a sentence
Yet, Autism Speaks kept funding research evaluating a possible link.
Re-evaluating the placement of products in exchanges is just one aspect of this holistic approach to strengthening values.
Gagging the Corps: A Marine Commandant’s War on Newsprint | David Abrams | February 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis reasons for punting on a question so essential to evaluating almost every sentence that follows are never given.
What is the News? Whatever Alain de Botton Thinks It Is | Robert Herritt | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Senate is also independently evaluating the government oversight of security clearances in the wake of the Navy yard shooting.
“They already made a medical determination without even evaluating her,” Levassuer told The Daily Beast.
How Chelsea Manning Will Test the Military's Transgender Policy | Winston Ross | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
This engine was to be capable of evaluating any algebraic formula.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousHe waited while her glance swung about the room, evaluating the place and its occupants in one quick sweep.
Shock Treatment | Stanley MullenBut they were in a pickle, and it would be up to her to see that Nails didn't waste too much time evaluating things.
Where I Wasn't Going | Walt RichmondWhen he made out these laws there was no method of evaluating areas except the Greek methods.
This resolution is the inverse of the process of evaluating an indeterminate form of the type ∞ − ∞.
British Dictionary definitions for evaluate
/ (ɪˈvæljʊˌeɪt) /
to ascertain or set the amount or value of
to judge or assess the worth of; appraise
maths logic to determine the unique member of the range of a function corresponding to a given member of its domain
Origin of evaluate
1Derived forms of evaluate
- evaluation, noun
- evaluator, noun
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