Evaluate Meaning
/ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
verbTo compute or determine the value of (an expression).
Sentence Examples
There are many things which we cannot evaluate in terms of money.
The teacher had to evaluate all the students.
The trial will evaluate the effectiveness of the different drugs.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We need to ____ the project's success using clear metrics next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Before buying the house, we hired an expert to ____ the condition of the foundation.
Word Origin & History
Back-formation from evaluation.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life."
— 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 151:
"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."
— 2006, Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 201:
"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."
— 2007, James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We need to ____ the project's success using clear metrics next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Before buying the house, we hired an expert to ____ the condition of the foundation.