VERIFY (verified)

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Irregular inflected form: verified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does verify mean? 

• VERIFY (verb)
  The verb VERIFY has 4 senses:

1. confirm the truth of

2. check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard

3. attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)

4. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

  Familiarity information: VERIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they verify    ... he / she / it verifies   
Past simple: verified   
Past participle: verified   
-ing form: verifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confirm the truth of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

verify a claim

Hypernyms (to "verify" is one way to...):

affirm; confirm; corroborate; substantiate; support; sustain (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "verify"):

check; check off; mark; mark off; tick; tick off (put a check mark on or near or next to)

ascertain; assure; check; control; ensure; insure; see; see to it (be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something)

check (verify by consulting a source or authority)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

verifiable (capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation)

verifiable (capable of being verified)

verification (additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct)

verificatory (serving to support or corroborate)

verifier (someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

control; verify

Context example:

Are you controlling for the temperature?

Hypernyms (to "verify" is one way to...):

essay; examine; prove; test; try; try out (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to)

Verb group:

ascertain; assure; check; control; ensure; insure; see; see to it (be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something)

Domain category:

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "verify" is one way to...):

confirm; reassert (strengthen or make more firm)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

verification ((law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement)

Sense 4

Meaning:

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

affirm; assert; aver; avow; swan; swear; verify

Context example:

Before God I swear I am innocent

Hypernyms (to "verify" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "verify"):

hold (assert or affirm)

claim; take (lay claim to; as of an idea)

attest (authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity)

declare (state firmly)

protest (affirm or avow formally or solemnly)

assure; tell (inform positively and with certainty and confidence)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

It defines which structures and organs of the body are involved by the tumor, verifies the primary site of the cancer and describes the extent to which it has spread.

(Pathology report, NCI Thesaurus)

Verifying that the methods used to free a medical device from viable microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria, and viruses were followed.

(Device Sterility Method Verification Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

A process used to verify that a system or component performs according to the original set of conditions at any point in development.

(Device Software Verification Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

However, we will go back at our leisure and verify it.

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

And how did you verify them?

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

An assay used to verify the presence of anti-HCV antibodies in a blood sample.

(Hepatitis C Virus Recombinant Immonoblot Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

Further testing can verify whether your baby has the condition.

(Newborn Screening, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Tumors should be verified by pathological examination.

(Amsterdam Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers first noted the volcanic activity in 2007 and verified its existence again in 2014.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

Of which, 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)