Examiner

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Examiner \Ex*am"in*er\, n.
     One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates;
     an officer or person charged with the duty of making an
     examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an
     examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  examiner
       n 1: someone who administers a test to determine your
            qualifications [syn: {tester}, {quizzer}]
       2: an investigator who observes carefully; "the examiner
          searched for clues" [syn: {inspector}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "examiner":
     analyst, analyzer, asker, catechist, cross-interrogator,
     cross-questioner, detective, examinant, inquirer, inquisitionist,
     inquisitor, inspector, interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator,
     interrogatrix, interviewer, investigator, observer,
     opinion-sampler, poller, pollster, prober, querier, querist,
     questioner, questionist, quizzer, sampler, scrutineer,
     secret agent, tester, visitator, visitor