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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | identify problem, disease |
| Synonyms: | analyze, determinate, determine, diagnosticate, distinguish, interpret, investigate, pinpoint, place, pronounce, recognize, spot |
| Antonyms: | misdiagnose |
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| Main Entry: | experiment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | investigate, test |
| Synonyms: | analyze, assay, diagnose, examine, explore, fool with, futz around, mess around, play around with, practice with, probe, prove, put to the test, research, sample, scrutinize, search, shake down, speculate, study, try, try on, try on for size, try out, venture, verify, weigh |
| Main Entry: | identify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | recognize; label |
| Synonyms: | analyze, button down, card, catalog, classify, describe, determinate, determine, diagnose, diagnosticate, distinguish, establish, find, make out, name, peg, pick out, pinpoint, place, put one's finger on, select, separate, single out, spot, tab, tag* |
| Antonyms: | confuse, mistake |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pinpoint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | define, locate |
| Synonyms: | determinate, diagnose, distinguish, finger*, get a fix on, home in on, identify, place, recognize, spot |
| Antonyms: | be ambiguous, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | place |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | identify, recognize |
| Synonyms: | associate, determinate, determine, diagnose, distinguish, figure out*, finger*, indicate, know, nail, peg, pinpoint, put one's finger on, remember, set in context, spot, tell |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Antonyms: | forget, overlook |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recognize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | identify |
| Synonyms: | admit, be familiar, button down, descry, determinate, diagnose, diagnosticate, distinguish, espy, finger*, flash on, know, know again, make out, make*, nail, note, notice, observe, peg, perceive, pinpoint, place, recall, recollect, remark, remember, ring a bell, see, sight, spot, tab, tag, verify |
| Notes: | the use of 'appreciate' should involve valuing something or understanding it sympathetically, and when there is no value or sympathy, use 'recognize' or 'understand'; appreciate first meant 'set at a price; appraised' |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | see, recognize |
| Synonyms: | catch, catch sight of, descry, detect, determinate, diagnose, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, ferret out, find, identify, locate, make out, meet with, observe, pick out, pinpoint, place, point out, sight, trace, track, turn up |
| Antonyms: | overlook |
| Main Entry: | individualize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distinguish |
| Synonyms: | analyze, ascertain, categorize, characterize, classify, collate, decide, demarcate, determinate, determine, diagnose, diagnosticate, differentiate, discriminate, divide, estimate, extricate, figure out*, finger*, identify, individuate, judge, know, label, make out, mark off, mark*, name, part, pinpoint, place, qualify, recognize, select, separate, set apart, set off, sift, signalize, single out, singularize, sort out, specify, spot, tag*, tell apart, tell between, tell from |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Experiment. |
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-nouns
experiment; essay (attempt); analysis (investigation); trial, tentative method, tatonnement., verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, criterion, diagnostic, test, crucial test., crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring; curcuma paper, turmeric paper., empiricism, rule of thumb., feeler; pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind., speculation, random shot, leap in the dark., analyzer, analyst; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist.
-verbs
experiment; essay (endeavor); try, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength., grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, tatonner, aller a tatons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes., try one's fortune (adventure) [more]; explore (inquire).
-adjectives
experimental, empirical., probative, probatory, probationary, provisional; analytic, docimastic; tentative.
-adverbs
under probation, on one's trial.
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