diagnose
/ˈdʌɪ.əɡˌnəʊz/US/ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/
diagnose verb: to determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
Verb
diagnose (third-person singular simple present diagnoses, present participle diagnosing, simple past and past participle diagnosed)
- To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
- To determine the cause of a problem.
- But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264
- Mechanics use this extremely portable tool to diagnose engine faults, clear fault codes, and export data.2002, John J. Schiavone, Training for On-board Bus Electronics, page 19
diagnose meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
diagnose in Tamil
- கண்டறிதல்
diagnose in Urdu
- determine the root cause of
- تشخیص کرنا taśxīs karnā
diagnose in Bengali
- রোগ নির্ণয় করা, লক্ষণ দেখিয়া নির্ণয় করা
diagnose in Malayalam
- ലക്ഷണങ്ങൾ കൊണ്ട് രോഗം നിർണ്ണയിക്കുക
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- diagnose in Kannada
- ಕುತ್ತ ತಿಳಿ, ಕುತ್ತ ಒರೆ, ರೋಗ ನಿರ್ಣಯ ಮಾಡು, ರೋಗ ನಿದಾನ ಮಾಡು
- diagnose in Arabic
- شَخَّصَ šaḵḵaṣa
- diagnose in Thai
- วินิจฉัย wí-nít-chǎi
- diagnose in Vietnamese
- chẩn đoán
Examples of diagnose in a sentence
- We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
- Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
- The patient was diagnosed after displaying both aerophobia and acute hydrophobia.
Forms of diagnose
| third-person singular present | diagnoses |
|---|---|
| present participle | diagnosing |
| past participle | diagnosed |
| past | diagnosed |
Origin of diagnose
Back-formation from diagnosis. Compare also sclerose (verb).
Words formed from diagnose
Words that rhyme with diagnose
Questions about diagnose
- What does diagnose mean?
- Diagnose means to determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
- What is diagnose in Tamil?
- Diagnose in Tamil is கண்டறிதல். See Diagnose meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is diagnose?
- Diagnose is a verb.
- How do you pronounce diagnose?
- Diagnose is pronounced /ˈdʌɪ.əɡˌnəʊz/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of diagnose?
- The past tense of diagnose is diagnosed.
Words near diagnose in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diagnose (page history and authors); diagnose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diagnose (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diagnose (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diagnose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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