(~s, determining, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If a particular factor ~s the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind. (FORMAL)
The size of the chicken pieces will ~ the cooking time...
What ~s whether you are a career success or a failure?
= dictate
VERB: V n, V wh
determination
...the gene which is responsible for male sex determination.
N-UNCOUNT: with supp
2.
To ~ a fact means to discover it as a result of investigation. (FORMAL)
The investigation will ~ what really happened...
Testing needs to be done to ~ the long-term effects on humans...
Science has ~d that the risk is very small.
= identify
VERB: V wh, V n, V that
3.
If you ~ something, you decide it or settle it.
The Baltic people have a right to ~ their own future...
My aim was first of all to ~ what I should do next.
VERB: V n, V wh, also V that, V wh to-inf
determination (determinations)
We must take into our own hands the determination of our future.
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu the N of n
4.
If you ~ to do something, you make a firm decision to do it. (FORMAL)
He ~d to rescue his two countrymen...
I ~d that I would ask him outright.
VERB: V to-inf, V that