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# examiner

«examiner» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who sets or marks an exam or test, as in «The…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an examiner, examiners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who sets or marks an exam or test, as in «The examiner marked our papers». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#m1)

2) A person who checks something carefully, as in a «driving examiner» or a «medical examiner». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#m2)

3) (in a newspaper name) Several newspapers are called «The Examiner». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school, especially the UK, examiners mark SATs, GCSEs and music exams; teachers say «Show your working for the examiner». In everyday life, a driving test examiner decides if you pass. In crime stories, a «medical examiner» finds out how someone died.

### examples

- The examiner said to start writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#x1)
- Write neatly so the examiner can read your answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#x2)
- Mum passed her driving test first time — the examiner was impressed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#x3)
- The piano examiner asked me to play a scale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#x4)
- The medical examiner looked at the evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#x5)
- Examiners give marks for showing your working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/#x6)

### note

Takes «an». The person who takes the exam is the «candidate» or «examinee». Verb: «examine».

### In the corpora

- [Ratings are decided by trained examiners who follow published rules, not by the film makers, and not by guessing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «examiner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/examiner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.