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validate
[ val-i-deyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to make valid; substantiate; confirm:
Time validated our suspicions.
Synonyms: prove, verify, authenticate
Antonyms: disprove
- to give legal force to; legalize.
- to give official sanction, confirmation, or approval to, as elected officials, election procedures, documents, etc.:
to validate a passport.
validate
/ ˈvælɪˌdeɪt /
verb
- to confirm or corroborate
- to give legal force or official confirmation to; declare legally valid
Derived Forms
- ˈvalidatory, adjective
- ˌvaliˈdation, noun
Other Words From
- val·i·da·tion [val-i-, dey, -sh, uh, n] noun
- val·i·da·tor noun
- val·i·da·to·ry [val, -i-d, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], adjective
- re·val·i·date verb (used with object) revalidated revalidating
- un·val·i·dat·ed adjective
- un·val·i·dat·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Where there is less than a 1% chance of a candidate being a false positive, it is considered a validated planet.
John Mascola, the head of vaccine research for the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, who has helped set up Operation Warp Speed, says that the project is currently in the process of creating and validating standardized assays.
For one thing, the test needs to be validated on samples from patients who have actually tested positive for covid-19.
The next step is to validate promising anti-aging genetic differences, similar to how scientists validated such differences in nematode worms during classic longevity studies.
The software couldn’t validate her identity and she was denied access to tests so often that she had to go to her professor to make other arrangements.
But even there… look what I did, I cited research as though it were necessary to validate the lived experience of black people.
Myers and Gurney felt such actions were a means to validate the report.
So I called Dr. Angelou for perspective, and perhaps to validate my own perspective.
If Democrats gain the seat, it will validate those on the left who think the Affordable Care Act can be an electoral asset.
This way, the anti-foreigner party could validate whether or not the person was ‘truly Greek.’
This is all that is necessary to validate the use of images to be made in the sequel.
Of course, it is our hope that this test will validate Rapid Dominance as a legitimate doctrine.
True ideas are those which we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify.
They take the name without scruple, and the usage of today seems to validate the theft.
The signature of the affiant and of the notary and the seal are all necessary to validate the affidavit.
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