EXAMINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does examiner mean? 

• EXAMINER (noun)
  The noun EXAMINER has 2 senses:

1. someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

2. an investigator who observes carefully

  Familiarity information: EXAMINER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXAMINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

examiner; quizzer; tester

Hypernyms ("examiner" is a kind of...):

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner (someone who asks a question)

Derivation:

examine (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An investigator who observes carefully

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

examiner; inspector

Context example:

the examiner searched for clues

Hypernyms ("examiner" is a kind of...):

investigator (someone who investigates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "examiner"):

bank examiner (an examiner appointed to audit the accounts of banks in a given jurisdiction)

checker (one who checks the correctness of something)

scrutiniser; scrutinizer (a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care)

canvasser; scrutineer (someone who examines votes at an election)

Derivation:

examine (observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect)

 Context examples 

Objective evidence of bacterial infection perceptible to the examiner by laboratory procedure.

(Bacteriological Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

During examination of the newborn infant, the examiner looks for symmetric movement of the lip corners.

(Movement of Lip Corners, NCI Thesaurus)

I am one of the examiners.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When examining the infant's palm for abnormalities, the examiner may note a single transverse palmar crease, which is found in 5% of newborns and is frequently inherited as a familial trait.

(Palmar Crease Examination, NCI Thesaurus)

This enables the examiner to differentiate between normal and abnormal flow patterns and, in some cases, to quantitate those characteristics that are helpful in determining the severity of abnormal flow states.

(Doppler Echocardiography, NCI Thesaurus)

The examiner measures the angle made by the arc from the table to the infant's heels; increased angle for age suggests hypotonia, and decreased angle for age suggests hypertonia.

(Heel to Ear Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

When testing for congenital dislocation of the hip, this is the result obtained when the examiner gently abducts the hip while pushing upward on the greater trochanter.

(Ortolani Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)

However, it is now some comfort to reflect, that in what I said of my countrymen, I extenuated their faults as much as I durst before so strict an examiner; and upon every article gave as favourable a turn as the matter would bear.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)