transitive verb
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: to determine or fix the value of
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: to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually by careful appraisal and study
Synonyms
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estimate, appraise, evaluate, value, rate, assess mean to judge something with respect to its worth or significance.
estimate implies a judgment, considered or casual, that precedes or takes the place of actual measuring or counting or testing out.
estimated the crowd at two hundred
appraise commonly implies the fixing by an expert of the monetary worth of a thing, but it may be used of any critical judgment.
having their house appraised
evaluate suggests an attempt to determine relative or intrinsic worth in terms other than monetary.
evaluate a student’s work
value equals appraise but without implying expertness of judgment.
a watercolor valued by the donor at $500
rate adds to estimate the notion of placing a thing according to a scale of values.
a highly rated restaurant
assess implies a critical appraisal for the purpose of understanding or interpreting, or as a guide in taking action.
officials are trying to assess the damage
Example Sentences
We need to evaluate our options.
evaluate a training program as effective
Recent Examples on the Web
The state also agreed to pay Burley $12,000 and have his health evaluated by the prison medical director.
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Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2023
Steichen joined Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce on the New Heights podcast, and discussed their time together with the Eagles, evaluating players and preparing for games.
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The Border Patrol said each of the victims was medically evaluated before being taken into custody.
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Benedict said the weather service will re-evaluate the continuance of the flood warnings as Friday draws closer.
—Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
The probe, which was announced after police released videos showing the March 18 shooting that led to Dalaneo Martin’s death, comes amid other high-profile cases across the country that have forced departments to re-evaluate their interactions with Black people.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2023
On one occasion, Smither joined a panel of judges at the Huntsville state prison charged with the task of evaluating artwork by inmates.
—Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
For this story, Theresa Holland and Taylor Fox researched dozens of inflatables and pool loungers, carefully evaluating each one based on size, durability, and design.
—Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2023
The Atlas of Impunity provides a holistic look at impunity, evaluating five dimensions to determine a country’s impunity score.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
back-formation from evaluation, from French évaluation, from Middle French evaluacion, from esvaluer to evaluate, from e- + value value
First Known Use
1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of evaluate was
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“Evaluate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evaluate. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
assign a rank or rating to
have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
judge to be right or commendable; think well of
consider bad or wrong
see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way
judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence
evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
appraise anew
refuse to accept or acknowledge
consider or hold as true
judge or regard; look upon; judge
judge to be probable
regard something as probable or likely
attribute or credit to
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
deem wrong or inappropriate
declare to be
appraise critically
judge unacceptable
accept or judge as acceptable
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one’s own
remain committed to
expect, believe, or suppose
take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
assign a grade or rank to, according to one’s evaluation
place in a superior order or rank
put someone or something on a short list
distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
assign a new order to
rank or order as less important or consider of less value
assign a priority to
arrange in a sequence
rate lower; lower in value or esteem
rate higher; raise in value or esteem
estimate the value of
look disapprovingly upon
approve automatically
evaluate by comparing with a standard
revise or renew one’s assessment
subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
accept as true; take to be true
reject as false; refuse to accept
refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
accept as true or valid
accept (documents) as valid
reject (documents) as invalid
change one’s mind
dispose the mind in a certain way
look on as or consider
have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone’s behavior or attitude
deem to be
be confident about something
allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
ascribe to an origin in sensation
give someone credit for something
attribute to another source
ascribe human features to something
attribute human qualities to something
ascribe an achievement to
attribute responsibility to
regard as objective
incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
accept as inevitable
show disapproval by discouraging
align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
assign to a class or kind
accept as legally binding and valid
cast off
bar from attention or consideration
express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent
declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
declare to be obsolete
declare a child to be illegitimate
declare legally insane
declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
declare (a dead person) to be a saint
evaluate professionally a colleague’s work
express strong disapproval of; deplore
express approval of
acknowledge praise or accept credit
try to prevent; show opposition to
pronounce judgment on
show respect towards
declare null and void; make ineffective
make formal or official
check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
test something under the conditions under which it will actually be used
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from evaluation.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɨˈvaljʊeɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪ̈ˈvaljəˌweɪt/
- Hyphenation: eval‧u‧ate
Verb[edit]
evaluate (third-person singular simple present evaluates, present participle evaluating, simple past and past participle evaluated)
- (transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
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2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 151:
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Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life.
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It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
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- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
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Evaluate this integral.
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- (intransitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.
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2006, Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 201:
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Since element (15.1) evaluates to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
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2007, James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165:
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In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.
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Derived terms[edit]
- evaluatee
- evaluator
- reevaluate
Translations[edit]
to draw conclusions from by examining
- Bulgarian: оценявам (bg) (ocenjavam)
- Catalan: avaluar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 評價／评价 (zh) (píngjià)
- Czech: ohodnotit
- Danish: evaluere
- Estonian: hindama
- Finnish: arvioida (fi), evaluoida (fi)
- French: évaluer (fr)
- German: evaluieren (de), auswerten (de)
- Gothic: 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dōmjan)
- Greek: αξιολογώ (el) (axiologó), εκτιμώ (el) (ektimó)
- Hungarian: értékel (hu), kiértékel (hu)
- Ido: evaluar (io)
- Irish: luacháil
- Italian: valutare (it)
- Japanese: 評する (ja) (hyō-suru)
- Korean: 평가하다 (ko) (pyeongga-hada)
- Latgalian: īvērtēt
- Maori: aromātai
- Polish: oceniać (pl) impf, ocenić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: avaliar (pt)
- Russian: оце́нивать (ru) impf (océnivatʹ), оцени́ть (ru) pf (ocenítʹ), сделать вывод pf (sdelatʹ vyvod)
- Spanish: evaluar (es)
- Tagalog: halgahan
- Turkish: değerlendirmek (tr)
to have or return a given value
References[edit]
Evaluation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading[edit]
- evaluate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “evaluate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- evaluate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Ido[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /evaˈluate/
Verb[edit]
evaluate
- adverbial present passive participle of evaluar
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
evaluate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of evaluar combined with te
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verb (used with object), e·val·u·at·ed, e·val·u·at·ing.
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.).
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Origin of evaluate
First recorded in 1835–45; back formation from evaluation
OTHER WORDS FROM evaluate
e·val·u·a·ble [ih-val-yoo-uh-buhl], /ɪˈvæl yu ə bəl/, adjectivee·val·u·a·tive, adjectivee·val·u·a·tor, nounmis·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, adjectivere·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
Words nearby evaluate
evacuator, evacuee, evade, Evadne, evaginate, evaluate, evaluation, evaluative, Evan, evanesce, evanescence
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Words related to evaluate
appraise, assess, calculate, check, check out, classify, decide, figure out, gauge, grade, weigh, assay, class, criticize, estimate, guesstimate, peg, rank, rate, read
How to use evaluate in a sentence
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Without these data, we cannot even evaluate whether any changes in policing reduces racial inequalities in interactions with police.
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One very useful tool for evaluating air purifiers is this directory of room air cleaners maintained by AHAM.
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The large-scale stage of testing is intended to evaluate the vaccine’s effectiveness and safety.
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We are open to looking at and evaluate anything that we think is going to drive long-term shareholder value.
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The Chicago-based aerospace giant has been evaluating its workforce as it completes the initial reduction announced earlier this year.
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In schools, this meant finding new ways to evaluate students—and hence their teachers.
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Because these ingredients are so new, we need new methodologies just to evaluate them.
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Now we can set up a scientifically well prepared study to evaluate the transfusions vs. improved care.
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DOJ and CDC numbers differ, and conviction rates are harder to evaluate.
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When asked to evaluate his own work, Leigh was a little more reticent.
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Here again the Committee was not engaged on a fact-finding mission, but was seeking to evaluate the evidence in a broad way.
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About the other’s narrow hips was slung a belt from which hung pouches and tools the primitive colonist could not evaluate.
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They will still have in common certain fundamental morphological features, but it will be difficult to know how to evaluate them.
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It is a question of judgment as to how you evaluate a given characteristic.
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There were several agent examiners available to evaluate this material.
British Dictionary definitions for evaluate
verb (tr)
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
Derived forms of evaluate
evaluation, nounevaluator, noun
Word Origin for evaluate
C19: back formation from evaluation, from French, from evaluer to evaluate; see value
Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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evaluate
1) оце́нивать; определя́ть коли́чество, ка́чество
и т.п.
2)
мат.
выража́ть в чи́слах
Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > evaluate
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evaluate
[ɪˈvæljueɪt]
evaluate аттестовывать evaluate мат. выражать в числах evaluate давать оценку evaluate определять стоимость evaluate оценивать; определять количество evaluate оценивать
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evaluate
[ıʹvæljʋeıt]
1. 1) оценивать, устанавливать стоимость
2) определять количество
2. оценивать, давать оценку; определять качество, важность
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вычислять; выражать ()
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evaluate
[ɪ’væljueɪt]
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1) оценивать; устанавливать стоимость; определять количество
Syn:
2) оценивать, давать оценку; составлять мнение
He was evaluated as unfit for military service. — Его признали негодным для военной службы.
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3)
мат.
вычислять; выражать в числах
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evaluate
1. v оценивать, устанавливать стоимость
2. v определять количество
3. v мат. вычислять; выражать
Синонимический ряд:
2. judge (verb) assess; consider; judge; reckon; review; weigh
4. rate (verb) assay; calculate; estimate; gauge; rate; set at; survey; valuate; value
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2) оценивать, определять
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evaluate
- оценивать
- находить значение величины
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оценивать; находить значение величины
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оценивать; вычислять; получать численное значение; находить
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оценивать ; выражать в цифрах ;
Англо-Русский словарь финансовых терминов > evaluate
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оценивать, находить значение величины
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Англо-русский словарь нефтегазовой промышленности > evaluate
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evaluate
[ɪ’væljʊeɪt]
1) Общая лексика: аттестовать, выражать в числах, вычислить, вычислять, давать оценку, определять качество, важность, оценивать, оценить, устанавливать стоимость, выражать в цифрах, определять количество, пересчитать , квалифицировать
3) Математика: выражать , выразить численно, определить, подсчитать, подсчитывать
5) Бухгалтерия: оценивать
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1) /vt/ оценивать; 2) /vi/ находить значение величины
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Evaluate — E*val u*ate ([ e]*v[a^]l [ u]*[=a]t), v. t. [See {Evaluation}.] To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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evaluate — ► VERB 1) form an idea of the amount or value of; assess. 2) Mathematics find a numerical expression or equivalent for (a formula, function, etc.). DERIVATIVES evaluation noun evaluative adjective evaluator noun … English terms dictionary
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