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VALIDATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make valid or confirm the validity of

Example:

validate a ticket

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

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Antonym:

invalidate (take away the legal force of or render ineffective)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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

Sentence frames:

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Antonym:

invalidate (show to be invalid)

Derivation:

validation (the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something)

validation (the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof)

validatory (serving to support or corroborate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give evidence for

Synonyms:

corroborate; validate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

confirm; reassert (strengthen or make more firm)

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

circumstantiate (give circumstantial evidence for)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

validation (the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something)

validation (the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof)

validatory (serving to support or corroborate)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Declare or make legally valid

Synonyms:

formalise; formalize; validate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

authorise; authorize; clear; pass (grant authorization or clearance for)

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

ratify; sign (approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation)

co-sign; cosign (sign jointly)

probate (establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents))

Sentence frames:

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Antonym:

invalidate (declare invalid)

Credits

 Context examples: 

To validate their findings, the scientists tested the 10-lipid panel in a blinded analysis.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

But they cautioned that more studies are needed, particularly in humans, to validate these findings and especially before experimenting with hypocretin therapeutically.

(Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Validating that the device meets the user's needs and intended uses.

(Device Design Validation Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

These measures – including cortex thickness, cortex myelin content, task and resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) – cross-validated each other.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

A validated dyspnea rating scale may be useful.

(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The team validated the tallest tree’s height, and collected samples from the understory to try to understand what makes this site so special.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

Oncotype DX is validated for use in breast cancer patients whose disease is newly diagnosed, stage I or II, node-negative, estrogen receptor-positive and who will be treated with tamoxifen.

(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Thesaurus)

If validated in larger studies, this approach may prove to be a relatively simple way to quickly restore a person’s healthy microbiome following intensive antimicrobial therapy.

(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)

This model will need to be validated by additional studies, however, before it can be used in clinical practice.

(17% of Food-Allergic Children Have Sesame Allergy, National Institutes of Health)

In this study, we had thousands of measurements of snow depth on sea ice to thoroughly validate NASA's aircraft observations.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)