evaluate
[ɪˈvæljueɪt]
Definition:
1. To form an opinion of the amount, value or quality of sth after thinking about it carefully.
2. Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of.
'evaluate' example sentence:
- Our research attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the different drugs.
- Each community has created industry-led committees that can help set policy and evaluate progress.
- The police force should not evaluate officers performance in terms of the number of arrests they make.
- Don't evaluate people by their clothes.
- Don't evaluate a person on the basis of appearance.
- We defined the standards against which the computing systems were to be evaluated.
- Michael evaluates the idea for a brief period before realizing how ridiculous it is.
- It is important to evaluate the results of surgery.
- The law now requires that parents serve on the committees that plan and evaluate school programs.
- The market situation is difficult to evaluate.
- The system it uses to evaluate drugs is admired by public health experts worldwide.
- Joe and Ken evaluated the plan and agreed that it would work.
- To evaluate something means to study it, so a decision can be made.