Definition of Determine

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Determine

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.

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

To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course.

To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.

To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause.

To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.

To define or limit by adding a differentia.

To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.

To come to an end; to end; to terminate.

To come to a decision; to decide; to resolve; -- often with on.

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Determine Quotations

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato

Determine Translations

determine in Afrikaans is vasstel, vasmaak, bepaal
determine in Dutch is determineren, nauwkeurig bepalen
determine in German is entscheiden, untersuche, bestimme
determine in Latin is exigo, decerno
determine in Norwegian is bestemme
determine in Spanish is fijar, determinar

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