CHECK    檢驗

INVESTIGATE the TRUTH of a SENTENCE:statement.
MAKE SURECONFIRMVERIFYEXAMINEINSPECTLOOK ATLOOK OVERSCRUTINIZESURVEYSTUDYINVESTIGATERESEARCHPROBELOOK INTOINQUIRE INTOCHECK OUTGIVE SOMETHING A ONCE-OVER
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current standard word for cross-checking and veryfying a statement is cān 參 which refers to the cross-checking of a public statement against the realities it claims to refer to. 2. Yàn 驗 and zhēng 徵 refer to an attempt to find specific good evidence (often historical evidence) for something. 3. Hé 覈 refers to checking out the real facts of a case someone is making.
Modern Chinese Criteria
調查 考察 查明 踏看 踏勘 查 查證 偵查 偵探 偵緝 查訪 察訪 內查外調 明查暗訪 微服私訪 私行察訪 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
See also
  • PROVEEXPLAIN CLEARLY WHY a SENTENCE is TRUE.
  • PROVEEXPLAIN CLEARLY WHY a SENTENCE is TRUE.
Hypernym
  • INVESTIGATE TRY SYSTEMATICALLY to UNDERSTAND. (anc: 13/0, child: 5)
  • TRY ACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING. (anc: 12/0, child: 9)
  • ACT MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)

Words (9 items)

  cān OC: tshuum MC: tshəm 8 Attributions

The current standard word for cross-checking and veryfying a statement is cān 參 which refers to the cross-checking of a public statement against the realities it claims to refer to.

    Word relations
  • Result: 驗/PROVE The current general word for, often decisive, proof or evidence is yàn 驗, but the word does not refer to a discursive elabarate logical proof as one might expect to find in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition.
  • Contrast: 考 / 考/INVESTIGATE Kǎo 考 and jī 稽 refer to an objective investigation into something on the basis of the best available evidence.
  • Assoc: 觀/INVESTIGATE

    Syntactic words
  • nabactinvestigation; test
  • vadNcross-checked 不參之事
  • vt[oN]carry out double checks, carry out a cross-check; check the facts of things
  • vtoNcross-check, investigate (especially through comparisons), check against the facts; check against each other
參驗  cān yàn OC: tshuum ŋɡroms MC: tshəm ŋiɛm 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabfactualcross-checked evidence
  • VPtoNcross-check and verify (the evidence)
  xiào OC: ɡreews MC: ɦɣɛu 5 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Synon: 考 / 考/INVESTIGATE Kǎo 考 and jī 稽 refer to an objective investigation into something on the basis of the best available evidence.

    Syntactic words
  • nabacttest
  • vtoNfind satisfactory evidence on; check out; test carefully; get to the bottom of (a person or a matter)
  • vtoNconativetry to get to the bottom ofLZ
參伍  sān wǔ OC: saam ŋaaʔ MC: sɑm ŋuo̝ 4 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabactdouble-checking
  • VPt[oN]check out systematically; investigate systematicallyCH
  • VPtoNdouble-check
  yàn OC: ŋɡroms MC: ŋiɛm 3 Attributions

Yàn 驗 and zhēng 徵 refer to an attempt to find specific good evidence (often historical evidence) for something.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 審/INVESTIGATE The most general words for investigating something are chá 察 "sort out clearly" and shen 審 "investigate carefully".
  • Assoc: 考 / 考/INVESTIGATE Kǎo 考 and jī 稽 refer to an objective investigation into something on the basis of the best available evidence.

    Syntactic words
  • nab.post-V{NUM}acta test 六驗
  • vtoNcheck against the facts, verify; prove
  hé OC: ɡreeɡ MC: ɦɣɛk 1 Attribution

Hé 覈 refers to checking out the real facts of a case someone is making.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNinvestigate, sort out
  hé MC: hop OC: ɡloob 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNmiddle voicebe properly checkedCH
參觀  cān guān OC: tshuum koon MC: tshəm kʷɑn 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt[oN]check and observe things
  zhēng OC: tɯŋ MC: ʈɨŋ 0 Attributions

Yàn 驗 and zhēng 徵 refer to an attempt to find specific good evidence (often historical evidence) for something.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNverify through concrete investigation, test concretely