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päätellä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • collect verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  • conclude verb To bring something to an end; to finish.
  • crown noun An ornamental headpiece worn by a monarch as a symbol of royal power.
  • deduce verb To work out a conclusion through logical reasoning based on known facts or evidence.
  • deem verb To regard or judge something as being a certain way, based on one's opinion or assessment.
  • derive verb To get or obtain something from a particular source.
  • elicit verb To draw out a response, reaction, or piece of information from someone, often through careful questioning.
  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • infer verb To work out or conclude something based on evidence or reasoning, rather than being told directly.
  • judge noun A public official who presides over court cases and delivers rulings.

Senses

päätellä is used for these senses in English:

  • cast off (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
  • collect (transitive, now, rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
  • conclude (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
  • crown (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
  • deduce (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
  • deem (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  • derive (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
  • elicit To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.

collect — full definition

  1. verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  2. verb To go and get someone or something; to pick up.
  3. verb To receive payment that is owed.

conclude — full definition

  1. verb To bring something to an end; to finish.
  2. verb To decide something after considering the evidence; to reach a judgment.

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