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Determining

adjective

1.

Having the power or quality of deciding. Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative. "Cast the deciding vote" , "The determinative (or determinant) battle"

Determine

verb

(past & past part. determined; pres. part. determining)

1.

Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out. "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

2.

Shape or influence; give direction to. Synonyms: influence, mold, regulate, shape. "Mold public opinion"

3.

Fix conclusively or authoritatively. Synonym: set.

4.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

5.

Reach, make, or come to a decision about something. Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind.

6.

Fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.

7.

Settle conclusively; come to terms. Synonyms: settle, square off, square up.

8.

Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort. Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch. "See whether it works" , "Find out if he speaks Russian" , "Check whether the train leaves on time"

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... a railway train in motion, the engine would present itself as the master of the situation,—the determining cause of the motion and direction of the train. It visibly takes the lead, it looks big and important, and it makes a great noise. Even people a long way up in the scale of civilization are in the habit of taking these attributes, perhaps ...

— John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works • Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison and Other

... decorate their apartments as they chose, to purchase certain articles of furniture, and even to give a dinner party when and in what style they chose. Under the Valois regime strict limits were assigned to the expenses of the table, determining the number of courses of which a banquet should consist, and that of the dishes of which each course was to be composed. Any guest who should fail to denounce an infraction of the law of which he had been a witness, was liable to a fine of forty livres; ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... had drunk, fell asleep.... A fatal chill penetrated his bones; he reached home with the seeds of a rheumatic fever already in possession of his weakened frame. In this little accident, and not in the pressure of poverty or disrepute, or wounded feelings or a broken heart, truly lay the determining cause of the sadly shortened days ...

— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp

... is Graded Bible Study, and, possibly, were we to give a Bible to the boy and induce him to read it, the parts which he would read would help us a lot in determining the material that would challenge his interest. The parts he skipped over would also ...

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... ex-German Emperor, charging him with the gravest offences against international morality and the sacred authority of treaties. A special tribunal composed of representatives of the five great Entente Powers shall try him and will have the right of determining his punishment (Art. 227). The German Government likewise recognizes the right of the allied and associated Powers to try in their courts of justice the persons (and more especially the officers) accused of having ...

— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

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