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CONFIRMING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
Example:
a positive pregnancy test
Synonyms:
confirming; positive
Classified under:
Similar:
Gram-positive ((of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Serving to support or corroborate
Example:
collateral evidence
Synonyms:
collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying
Classified under:
Similar:
supportive (furnishing support or assistance)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb confirm
Context examples:
In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission flew by Ganymede, confirming the moon's ocean, and showing it extends to depths of hundreds of miles.
(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)
After confirming that the neuromuscular tissue was compatible with their synthetic biobot skeletons, the teams worked to optimize the swimmers' abilities.
(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)
Researchers discovered the means by which honeybees keep their temporary clumps intact during adverse weather conditions, confirming their theory about bees’ behavior under stressful conditions.
(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The recent Hubble observations allowed a team of astronomers to refine the mass and size estimates for these worlds — independently confirming their "puffy" nature.
('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)
Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12, just after 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST.
(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)
Scientists also found the moon surfaces to be highly porous, further confirming that they were formed in multiple stages as ring material settled onto denser cores that might be remnants of a larger object that broke apart.
(NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons, NASA)
Mrs. Jennings, who had been inclined from the first to think Marianne's complaint more serious than Elinor, now looked very grave on Mr. Harris's report, and confirming Charlotte's fears and caution, urged the necessity of her immediate removal with her infant; and Mr. Palmer, though treating their apprehensions as idle, found the anxiety and importunity of his wife too great to be withstood.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But stranger things have happened; and when we cease to care for each other as we do now, it will be the means of confirming us in that sort of true disinterested friendship which I can already look forward to with pleasure.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The study found that cumulative RF-EMF brain exposure from mobile phone use over one year may have a negative effect on the development of figural memory performance in adolescents, confirming prior results published in 2015.
(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial, and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded as having passed at the Netherfield ball, and as confirming all his first disapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind than on hers.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
