assess
[verb]
Synonyms:
- judge, appraise, estimate, evaluate, rate, size up (informal), value, weigh
- evaluate, fix, impose, levy, rate, tax, value

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Related Words: calculate, compute, account, consider, deem, reckon, weigh

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English Thesaurus: calculate, work out, figure out, count, total, ...

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as‧sess S2 W2 AC /əˈses/ verb [transitive]
[Word Family: noun: assessment, assessor; verb: assess]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: assesser, from Latin, past participle of assidere 'to sit beside, help in making judgments', from ad- 'to' + sedere 'to sit']

1. to make a judgment about a person or situation after thinking carefully about it Synonym : judge
assess the impact/extent/effectiveness etc of something
a report to assess the impact of advertising on children
assess what/how etc
The technique is being tried in classrooms to assess what effects it may have.
be assessed as something
Many of the adults were assessed as having learning difficulties.

2. to calculate the value or cost of something
be assessed at something
The value of the business was assessed at £1.25 million.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

assess
verb
I. form an opinion
ADV. fully | accurately, correctly, properly
VERB + ASSESS attempt to, try to | help to | be difficult to It is difficult to fully assess the damage.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

assess
II. amount/value
ADV. accurately, correctly, properly
VERB + ASSESS attempt to, try to | be difficult to It is difficult to assess the building's value properly without seeing it.
PREP. at The legal costs have been assessed at £75,000.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

calculate formal to find out an amount, price, or value by adding numbers together:
The students calculated the cost of printing 5000 copies of their book.
work out to calculate something. Work out is less formal than calculate, and is more common in everyday English:
You need to work out how much you will need to borrow.
figure out (also figure American English) informal to calculate an amount:
We still haven't figured out how much it's all going to cost.
the method for figuring welfare payments
count to find out the total number of things or people in a group by looking at each one and adding them all together:
The teacher counted the children as they got on the bus.
total (also total up) to add a number of things together to get a final number:
Once the scores have been totaled, we will announce the winner.
Okay, now let's total up who had the most points.
quantify formal to say how much something costs, how much of it there is, how serious or effective it is etc:
I think it's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment, for a variety of reasons.
How do you quantify the benefits of the treatment?
a reliable method for quantifying the amount of calcium in the blood
assess formal to calculate what the value or cost of something is, or decide how good, bad etc something is:
The value of the paintings was assessed at $20 million.
They are still assessing the damage.
We need to have a better way of assessing students' progress.
estimate to guess an amount, price, or number as exactly as you can, based on the knowledge you have:
The police department estimates that the number of violent crimes will decrease by 2%.
put a figure on something to say what you think the exact total amount or value of something is, especially when it is a lot:
It's hard to put a figure on it, but the final cost is likely to be over £225 million.
The company has refused to put a figure on its losses.
project to calculate what an amount will be in the future, using the information you have now:
The company projects sales of $4 million this year.
a rough count (=not exact)
I made a rough count of the houses in the street.
a quick count
According to my quick count, there were 15.
a head count (=of how many people are present)
Make sure you do a head count before the children get back on the bus.
a word/page count (=of how many words or pages there are)
Your computer can do an automatic word count.
a traffic count (=of how many vehicles pass through a place)
We went to the main road at 9 am to begin our traffic count.
do/make a count
I looked at the report and did a quick page count.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

calculate formal to find out an amount, price, or value by adding numbers together:
The students calculated the cost of printing 5000 copies of their book.
work out to calculate something. Work out is less formal than calculate, and is more common in everyday English:
You need to work out how much you will need to borrow.
figure out (also figure American English) informal to calculate an amount:
We still haven't figured out how much it's all going to cost.
the method for figuring welfare payments
count to find out the total number of things or people in a group by looking at each one and adding them all together:
The teacher counted the children as they got on the bus.
total (also total up) to add a number of things together to get a final number:
Once the scores have been totaled, we will announce the winner.
Okay, now let's total up who had the most points.
quantify formal to say how much something costs, how much of it there is, how serious or effective it is etc:
I think it's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment, for a variety of reasons.
How do you quantify the benefits of the treatment?
a reliable method for quantifying the amount of calcium in the blood
assess formal to calculate what the value or cost of something is, or decide how good, bad etc something is:
The value of the paintings was assessed at $20 million.
They are still assessing the damage.
We need to have a better way of assessing students' progress.
estimate to guess an amount, price, or number as exactly as you can, based on the knowledge you have:
The police department estimates that the number of violent crimes will decrease by 2%.
put a figure on something to say what you think the exact total amount or value of something is, especially when it is a lot:
It's hard to put a figure on it, but the final cost is likely to be over £225 million.
The company has refused to put a figure on its losses.
project to calculate what an amount will be in the future, using the information you have now:
The company projects sales of $4 million this year.
add to put two or more numbers together to find the total:
If you add 7 and 5, you get 12.
subtract/take away to reduce one number by another number. take something away sounds more informal than subtract:
If you subtract 12 from 15, you get 3.
multiply to add a number to itself a particular number of times:
4 multiplied by 10 is 40.
divide to calculate how many times one number contains another number:
10 divided by 2 equals 5.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

judge to form an opinion about someone or something, using your knowledge, experience, and intelligence:
He will judge whether the project has been a success.
It’s difficult to judge how long the work will take.
assess to judge how good, bad, successful etc someone or something is, especially by using a fixed set of standards. Assess is often used about measuring students’ abilities and performance:
Are tests and exams the best way to assess students’ progress?
The insurance company will send someone to assess the damage.
evaluate to judge how good, bad, successful etc someone or something is, especially by carefully examining all the information about them. Evaluate is often used about the work of people doing research:
The data from the study is still being evaluated.
The test is used to evaluate the effects of pesticides on domestic bees.
gauge (also gage American English) formal to judge people’s opinions or feelings about something, or to measure the effect, importance etc of something. Gauge is often used when talking about getting a general idea of what something is like:
A meeting was arranged in order to gauge the opinions of pupils, parents and teachers.
It' s too early to gauge the impact of the oil price rises on people’s spending.
Without further information it is impossible to gauge the full extent of the problem.
appraise formal to judge how successful, effective etc someone or something is, especially by comparing their good and bad points:
Twice a year, managers appraise the performance of employees.
This research aims to appraise the effectiveness of different kinds of public sector financial assistance.
On what basis will a teacher be appraised?

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