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determine
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determined as in:  is determined to succeed

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    She is determined to find a cure for the disease.
    determined = firmly planning
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    Maybe I must be more determined than others to succeed, but I know that it will happen.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    He was determined that Rudy would hit the ground and stay there.  (source)
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    By Sunday, he was still determined not to go back to school.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    The shock of finding the severed leg had left him with a grim determination to close the park, and destroy it.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It was a mystery in itself, whatever it was, and Lina was determined to solve it.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    When his shift was up, he sped away with an expression of furious determination.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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    At least three determined individuals had managed to climb over it since I'd moved in.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    Calvin, his face screwed up with grim determination, did not relax his hold.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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    Ron called, his face pale but determined.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    He felt his determination growing, as it had in the days after Uncle's death.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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    I wanted to bend down and kiss her, for how small and determined she looked.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    Finny's face set in determination, with the older look I had just detected in him.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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determine as in:  determined she is guilty

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    She determined that there was an error in the calculation.
    determined = discovered
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    The board determined that she is not eligible for parole.
    determined = officially decided
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    She uses TurboTax to determine her tax liability.
    determine = figure out (learn or calculate)
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    The issue needs to be determined politically rather than judiciously.
    determined = officially decided
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    "Maybe you should let me determine that myself?" he says.  (source)
    determine = decide
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    "I'll go and have another look," said Marilla, determining to be just.  (source)
    determining = deciding
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    Everything had some kind of predetermined price?†  (source)
    predetermined = decided in advance
    standard prefix: The prefix "pre-" means in advance or before as seen in prepay and preschool.
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    This cause having been remanded to the Court for a determination of whether there is evidence to support the theory that Ralph Meyers perjured himself at the original trial and...  (source)
    determination = official finding or decision
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (it may have been argued) will extend to causes determinable in different modes, some in the course of the COMMON LAW, others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.†  (source)
    determinable = able to be learned, discovered, or decided
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    If we want a picture, we have to get a requisition, but if the mind game program determines that the picture is necessary.  (source)
    determines = decides
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    Yet legislative acts are basically judicial determinations, not about the rights of individuals, but about the rights of groups of citizens.  (source)
    determinations = decisions or rulings
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    I mean, how does one determine the sex of a dinosaur, anyway?  (source)
    determine = figure out
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    As George Steiner summarizes it, relativists tend to believe that language is not the vehicle of thought but its determining medium.†  (source)
    determining = learning, discovering, or deciding
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determine as in:  this game determines the champion

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The research paper determines 50% of the class grade.
determines = controls
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    The number of days of vacation is determined by years at the company.
    determined = controlled
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    A coin flip determines the outcome.
    determines = controls
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    This game will determine who wins the national championship.
    determine = control
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    That will be your final test, which determines your ranking for stage three.  (source)
    determines = controls
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    "Regular or undetermined?" somebody asked.†  (source)
    undetermined = not controlled
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undetermined means not and reverses the meaning of determined. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Laboratories: a) biochemistry, with all necessary equipment for automatic amino-acid analysis, sequence determination, 0/R potentials, lipid and carbohydrate determinations on human, animal, other subjects.†  (source)
    determinations = processes of controlling (how things turn out)
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    But today we honor your differences. They have determined your futures. She began to describe this year's group and its variety of personalities,  (source)
    determined = controlled
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    We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.  (source)
    determine = control
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    In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.  (source)
    determination = the process of controlling how something turns out
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.  (source)
    predetermined = controlled in advance
    standard prefix: The prefix "pre-" means in advance or before as seen in prepay and preschool.
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    For the rule of Manners, without Civill Government, is the Law of Nature; and in it, the Law Civill; that determineth what is Honest, and Dishonest; what is Just, and Unjust; and generally what is Good, and Evill: whereas they make the Rules of Good, and Bad, by their own Liking, and Disliking: By which means, in so great diversity of taste, there is nothing generally agreed on; but every one doth (as far as he dares) whatsoever seemeth good in his own eyes, to the subversion of Common-wealth.†  (source)
    determineth = controls (how something will turn out)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" would be replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She determineth" in older English, today we say "She determines." Grammarians might refer to this as third-person, singular, present tense. Note that when "-eth" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is dropped as an liveth and loveth.
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    As for Owen's belief that he was "God's instrument," I didn't know that there was other evidence upon which Owen was basing his conviction that he'd been specially selected to carry out the work of the Lord; but Owen's idea—that God's reasoning was somehow predetermining Owen's every move—came from much more than that one unlucky swing and crack of the bat.†  (source)
    predetermining = controlling in advance (how something will turn out)
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    Weather could be the great determiner between failure and success, the great test of one's staying power.†  (source)
    determiner = something that will control how something else turns out
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