EVALUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evaluate mean? 

• EVALUATE (verb)
  The verb EVALUATE has 2 senses:

1. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

2. form a critical opinion of

  Familiarity information: EVALUATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVALUATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they evaluate    ... he / she / it evaluates   
Past simple: evaluated   
Past participle: evaluated   
-ing form: evaluating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value

Context example:

access all the factors when taking a risk

Hypernyms (to "evaluate" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Verb group:

assess (estimate the value of (property) for taxation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evaluate"):

grade; mark; score (assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation)

rate; value (estimate the value of)

standardise; standardize (evaluate by comparing with a standard)

reassess; reevaluate (revise or renew one's assessment)

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

praise (express approval of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

evaluation (act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of)

evaluation (an appraisal of the value of something)

evaluative (exercising or involving careful evaluations)

evaluator (an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality)

value (the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable)

value (the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form a critical opinion of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

evaluate; judge; pass judgment

Context example:

We shouldn't pass judgment on other people

Hypernyms (to "evaluate" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evaluate"):

stand (have or maintain a position or stand on an issue)

essay; examine; prove; test; try; try out (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to)

pass (accept or judge as acceptable)

fail (judge unacceptable)

critique; review (appraise critically)

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

disapprove; reject (deem wrong or inappropriate)

assign; attribute (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme)

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

calculate; count on; estimate; figure; forecast; reckon (judge to be probable)

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

accept (consider or hold as true)

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

reappraise (appraise anew)

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

prejudge (judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence)

choose (see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way)

disapprove (consider bad or wrong)

approve (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)

grade; order; place; range; rank; rate (assign a rank or rating to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

evaluative (exercising or involving careful evaluations)

 Context examples 

An orally bioavailable, tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) inhibitor prodrug labeled with carbon C 14, which could be used to evaluate the pharmacokinetic profile of telotristat etiprate.

(Carbon C 14 Telotristat Etiprate, NCI Thesaurus)

A culture filtrate of cells of Candida Albicans propagated in a chemically defined medium and used as a recall antigen to evaluate cellular immunity in infection, cancer, and other disease states.

(Candida Albicans Skin Test Reagent, NCI Thesaurus)

Procedure to evaluate the structure and/or function of the heart.

(Cardiac Diagnostic Procedure, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

A registered nurse who has special training in how to plan, manage, and evaluate all aspects of patient care, especially for patients who get treatment over a long time.

(Case management nurse, NCI Dictionary)

In medicine, the rules and procedures for doing research and evaluating results.

(Methodology, NCI Dictionary)

A member of the multidisciplinary Concept Evaluation Panel (CEP) organized under the leadership of the NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program to evaluate Phase III clinical trial proposals.

(CEP Member, NCI Thesaurus)

Evaluate the clinical potential of these discoveries.

(Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, NCI Thesaurus)

A nuclear imaging method used to evaluate pathological bone metabolism.

(Bone scan, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized rating scale developed by Lon S. Schneider in 1997 to evaluate a clinically relevant change in an individual's Alzheimer's Disease symptoms.

(Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The result of evaluating the final state of a person who experienced an adverse event.

(Adverse Event Outcome Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)