determine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To set the boundaries or limits of.

   “[God] hath determined the times before appointed.”

2. fiil To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.

   “Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”

3. fiil To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.

   “The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.”

4. fiil To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.

   “The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.”

5. fiil To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.

   “The court has determined the cause.”

6. fiil To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.

   “I determined to go home at once.”

7. fiil To define or limit by adding a differentia.
8. fiil To bring to an end, finish; to come to an end, stop, end.

   “Novv, vvhere is hee, that vvill not ſtay ſo long Till his Friend ſickneſſe hath determin'd me?”