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{
"term": "evaluate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "evaluate",
"heSheIt": "evaluates"
},
"pastSimple": "evaluated",
"pastParticiple": "evaluated",
"ingForm": "evaluating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to form an opinion of the amount, value or quality of something after thinking about it carefully",
"sensetop": "evaluate somethingevaluate how, whether, etc…evaluate somebody/something for somethingevaluate somebody/something on something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The trial will evaluate the effectiveness of the different drugs.",
"contextForm": "evaluate something"
},
{
"text": "Researchers evaluated teaching performance by comparing students' exam results."
},
{
"text": "The study will **critically evaluate** whether this technology is useful.",
"contextForm": "evaluate how, whether, etc…"
},
{
"text": "We need to evaluate how well the policy is working."
},
{
"text": "The cheeses are evaluated for flavour, texture and colour.",
"contextForm": "evaluate somebody/something for something"
},
{
"text": "Candidates are evaluated on their ability to think independently.",
"contextForm": "evaluate somebody/something on something"
},
{
"text": "The effects of changes in land use can be evaluated by analysis of flooding patterns."
},
{
"text": "The evidence should be carefully evaluated."
},
{
"text": "This does not seem an accurate way of evaluating employees' performance."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Scientific research"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["effectively", "fully", "properly"],
"verb + evaluate": ["aim to", "attempt to", "be designed to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪt/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluate__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪts/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪt/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪts/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈvæljueɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ev/evaluate/evaluating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 19th cent. (earlier (mid 18th cent.) as evaluation): from French évaluer, from es- (from Latin ex-) ‘out, from’ + Old French value ‘value’."
}