validate
pronunciation
How to pronounce validate in British English:
UK [ˈvælɪdeɪt]
How to pronounce validate in American English:
US [ˈvælɪdeɪt]
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- Verb:
- declare or make legally valid
- prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
- give evidence for
- make valid or confirm the validity of
Word Origin
- validate (v.)
- 1640s, from Medieval Latin validatus, past participle of validare "to make valid," from validus (see valid). Related: Validated; validating.
Antonym
Example
- 1. That 's a specific solution that people can identify and externally validate .
- 2. Validate yourself by being your own cheerleader and tooting your own horn .
- 3. Seager and rogers worked with an international team of researchers to analyze and validate data from the kepler telescope .
- 4. When you return to the site to validate your account , you 're immediately hit with a page pushing you to add speakerrate to your linkedin profile .
- 5. The report blames bloated public sectors , restrictive regulation , and education that fails to match training to jobs ; it reads as if it had been written to validate mohamed bouazizi 's despair .