(v. t.) To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.
(v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(3) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(4) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(5) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(7) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
(8) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(9) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(10) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(11) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(12) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(13) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(14) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(15) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(16) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(17) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(18) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(19) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(20) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
Oversee
Definition:
(v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
(v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.
(v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
Example Sentences:
(1) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(2) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(3) Then they become increasingly unable to afford the probation fees that are piled on by private companies paid to oversee them, including fees for everything from basic supervision to drug tests.
(4) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(5) Based in London, Perrette oversees and sets the strategy for all of Discovery’s business outside the United States.
(6) May pointedly highlighted the latest reform effort, Vision 2030, promoted by the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, the hawkish defence minister who oversees the Saudi campaign in Yemen.
(7) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(8) February 2015: Vinci, the French company that oversees venues including the Stade de France, named as the stadium operator.
(9) One of the criticisms of Obama is that instead of asking vice-president Joe Biden to oversee a task force looking at proposals for reform in January and then leaving Congress to come up with a draft bill, he should have pushed his own set of proposals when emotions were still raw.
(10) It will also oversee an in-house review by the bank into the advice its financial planners gave to customers during that period.
(11) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
(12) In what was widely seen as a vote of low confidence in the Eulex inquiry, the EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, announced in Brussels this week that she would dispatch an independent legal expert to oversee its progress.
(13) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
(14) Hunt was given responsibility for overseeing the News Corp bid for Sky on 21 December 2010, after the business secretary, Vince Cable, told undercover reporters he was at war with Rupert Murdoch.
(15) Three US senators announced bills on Thursday that proposed the most sweeping structural changes to the secret court that oversees the legal basis for surveillance activities since it was set up 35 years ago.
(16) A tender process for a new body to oversee Libor starts on Friday.
(17) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(18) Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is overseeing a civil service overhaul, accepted Tsipras' motion, saying it would give the government an opportunity to prove that its parliamentary majority is strong.
(19) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(20) Alan Pardew Crystal Palace manager One of the more experienced English managers currently working in the top flight, he was considered a realistic candidate after overseeing eye-catching progress at Selhurst Park in 2015.