What's the difference between inspect and oversee?

Inspect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.
  • (v. t.) To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.
  • (v. t.) Inspection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (2) No disorganization of the muscle structure was detected by polarized light and electron microscopic inspection.
  • (3) On visual inspection the nephrograms showed no focal changes.
  • (4) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
  • (5) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (6) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (7) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
  • (8) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
  • (9) Inspection of the individual concentration time profiles in the other subjects provided additional evidence that the 5-OH-metabolite also contributes to this effect.
  • (10) Over the years he has been through 20 Ofsted inspections, with all the anxiety – and sometimes satisfaction – that entails.
  • (11) This would end time-limited visits and introduce an inspection regime.
  • (12) Ofsted said at the time that it had not received any complaints about any of the inspections.
  • (13) The plates were viewed directly in an inverted UV microscope or were inspected and photographed bottoms up with a conventional UV microscope mounted with an old-fashioned uncorrected objective (20 X) which, because of its shorter length, permitted proper focussing.
  • (14) The inspections have already led to complaints and demands that the rules be revoked.
  • (15) Laparoscopy with artificial ascites creates a larger space between organs and makes an accurate inspection of the entire intra-peritoneal abdomen possible.
  • (16) In a number of bacteriological drinking water analyses, this property was confirmed insofar as aquatic myxobacteria could regularly be demonstrated when inspecting hygienically deficient wells or springs.
  • (17) McMillan wrote in the decision : “I am satisfied from my own inspection of the documents (particularly the watch logs) that the claims, taken together, are reasonably based and genuine.
  • (18) The inspectors were also told that the day before their August inspection a patient with a known heart problem had a cardiac arrest in a corridor while waiting for a first clinical assessment.
  • (19) Moreover, veterinary help, the necessary use of drugs, the supervision and control of AID (Agricultural Inspection Services) and RVV (Inspection Service for Meat and Meat Products) add to the already substantial costs of modern animal husbandry.
  • (20) The geometry of the elbow joint limits intra-articular inspection and the use of instruments.

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.