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Definitions: Validate |
ValidateVerb1. Declare or make legally valid. 2. Prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something. 3. Give evidence for. 4. Make valid or confirm the validity of, as of a document; "validate a ticket". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "validate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Note: Validate \Val"i*date\, transitive verb. [See Valid.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VALIDATE | English | Verification And Launch of Integrated Digital Advanced Television in Europe | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ValidateSynonyms: corroborate (v), formalise (v), formalize (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: invalidate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Validate |
| Specialty definitions using "validate": authentication or signature ♦ data model, delay rental, demographic analysis ♦ error detection code ♦ QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | And I don't need that world to validate me ("Most Girls"; performing artist: Pink) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Studies to validate their efficacy are therefore strongly indicated. (references) | |
These techniques need further research to validate their effectiveness. (references) | ||
Clearly, it is important to identify and validate effective screening modalities. (references) | ||
Business | Article seven specifies that professionals who are not Argentine citizens may be required to take some tests in order to validate their diploma. (references) | |
In regards to having a registered architect-engineer validate material provided, interested foreign companies should keep in mind that this is a very "name" oriented subsector. (references) | ||
Economic History | Spain | Foreign companies wishing to contract with the Spanish government need to validate all certifications with the Spanish Consulate. (references) |
Gabon | Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51% of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results. (references) | |
Venezuela | The Constitution allows for the arbitration of disputes as "provided by domestic law." In April 1998, Congress passed the Commercial Arbitration Law (Official Gazette No. 36,430 dated April 7, 1998), which eliminates the previous requirement for a judge, in the first instance, to validate an arbitration clause in a commercial contract, and then, at the end of the process, to approve the ruling of the arbitrage panel. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | Passengers are on the "honor system" and expected to validate their own tickets after boarding. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Don't look to others to tell you what to think, or to validate your beliefs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Validate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.09% of the time. "Validate" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 82.09% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.19% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.49% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
validate | 30 |
validate email address | 18 |
date oracle sql validate | 13 |
validate html | 10 |
java script validate | 9 |
email validate | 9 |
date java script validate | 9 |
form validate | 8 |
available domain no password server validate | 7 |
validate ssn | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "validate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vërtetoj (acknowledge, attest, authenticate, avouch, certify, confirm, confirm a piece of news, corroborate, demonstrate, document, doom, endorse, establish, evince, indorse, justify, make certain, make good, prove, verify), quaj të vlefshëm, provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, experience, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, try out, venture, witness). (various references) | |
Arabic | جعله شرعيا (legitimize), أيد (advocate, affirm, champion, countenance, favor, favour, further, go in for, look with favor on, look with favour on, plunk, reason, second, side, side with, stand for, stand up for, stick up, stick up for, subscribe, subserve, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, verify, warrant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | узаконявам (authorise, authorize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, regularize, warrant), ратифицирам (confirm, ratify, sanction), потвърждавам (accredit, acknowledge, affirm, bear out, certify, clench, corroborate, endorse, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, speak to, substantiate, support, testify, undertake, uphold, verify, vindicate, vouch, warrant). (various references) | |
Chinese | 确认 (Confirmation, Corroborate, Corroborated, Corroborating, validated, validating). (various references) | |
Czech | schválit (approbate, authorize, commend, ok, okay, pass, ratify, sanction, vote), potvrdit (acknowledge, affirm, approve, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, establish, ratify, testify, to confirm, uphold, verify), legalizovat (attest, authenticate, legalize). (various references) | |
Dutch | geldig verklaren. (various references) | |
Esperanto | validigi. (various references) | |
Farsi | معتبرساختن (Accredit), نافذشمردن , قانونی کردن (Execute, Legalize, Legtimize), قانونی شناختن , تنفیذکردن . (various references) | |
French | valider. (various references) | |
German | bestätigen (acknowledge, affirm, assure, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, confirms, corroborate, countersign, endorse, guarantee, ratify, reaffirm, reassure, recognize, to affirm, to certify, to confirm, to indorse, to ratify, uphold, verify, witness). (various references) | |
Greek | νομιμοποιώ (legalise, legalize, legitimize), επικυρώνω (affirm, attest, authenticate, confirm, ratify, sanction), δίδω κύροσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לתת תוקף (put in force, sanction), לאמת (ascertain, attest, authenticate, corroborate, prove true, substantiate, verify), ל"יות בעל תוקף, ל"ק ות תוקף, ל"פוך לחוקי, ל"כ ס לתוקף (come into force, take effect). (various references) | |
Hungarian | érvényesít (endorse, indorse, probate, put across, to make good, to prove, to validate, to vindicate). (various references) | |
Italian | rendere valido, convalidare (authenticate, confirm, corroborate, substantiate), avvalorare, abilitare (enable, habilitate, qualify, train). (various references) | |
Korean | 효하게 하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo fondagh, jannoo breeoil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alidatevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | validar (authenticate), tornar válido. (various references) | |
Romanian | valida, confirma (acknowledge, affirm, bear out, confirm, corroborate, establish, fortify, homologate, justify, receipt, sanction, strengthen, verify, vouch, witness). (various references) | |
Russian | ратифицировать (confirm, ratify), объявлять действительным. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | testirati (assay, test), potvrditi (acknowledge, affirm, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, sanction, substantiate, verify), overiti (certify, homologate, notarize), nostrifikovati. (various references) | |
Spanish | validar. (various references) | |
Swedish | styrka (establishment, force, fortify, impact, intensity, invigorate, kick, loudness, lustiness, manpower, might, power, probate, prove, sinew, stamina, strength, strengthen, toughen, vigor, vigour), lagstadga, förklara giltig, bekräfta (acknowledge, affirm, attest to, attested, bear out, confirm, corroborate, endorse, ratify, reassert, seal, substantiate, vouch). (various references) | |
Turkish | yasallaştırmak (enact, legalize, legislate, make legal), onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, o.k., ok, okay, ratify, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), geçerli yapmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | ратифікувати (confirm, ratify), оголошувати дійсним, затверджувати (appoint, approbate, approve, certify, o.k., ok, okay, okey, ratify). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "validate": validated, validates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "validate": invalidate, revalidate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "validate": invalidated, invalidates, revalidated, revalidates. (additional references) | |
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"Validate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rallidae, valiadate, validati, validaty, Varidase, voliate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "validate" (pronounced va"ludāt) |
| 4 | -u d ā t | candidate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-t-v" | |
-1 letter: availed, aviated, datival, vedalia. | |
-2 letters: alated, aviate, dative, detail, dilate, tailed, vailed, vialed. | |
-3 letters: ailed, alate, alive, avail, davit, dealt, delta, devil, ideal, lated, laved, lived, telia, tidal, tilde, tiled, valet, valid, veldt, vitae, vital. | |
-4 letters: adit, aide, alae, alit, avid, dale, data, date, deal, deil, deli, delt, deva, dial, diel, diet, dita, dite, diva, dive, edit, evil, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, late, lati, lava, lave, lead, leva, lied, lite, live, tael, tail, tala, tale, tali, teal, tela, tide, tied, tile, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, veld, vial, vide, vied, vile, vita. | |
-5 letters: aal, aid, ail, ait, ala, ale, alt, ate, ava, ave, dal, del, dev, die, dit, eat, eld, eta, lad, lat, lav, lea, led, lei, let, lev, lid, lie, lit, tad, tae, tav, tea, ted, tel, tie, til, vat, vet, via, vie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-t-v" | |
+1 letter: laudative, salivated, travailed, validated, validates. | |
+2 letters: adaptively, adjectival, alleviated, galivanted, invalidate, revalidate, vacillated. | |
+3 letters: adventitial, advertorial, declarative, devaluating, devaluation, gallivanted, invalidated, invalidates, maladaptive, revalidated, revalidates. | |
+4 letters: adjectivally, advertorials, antediluvian, derivational, devaluations, maladjustive, misevaluated, quadrivalent, revalidating, revalidation, unalleviated, valetudinary. | |
+5 letters: adumbratively, adversatively, antediluvians, declaratively, devastatingly, quadrivalents, radioactively, revalidations, valedictorian. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 6C 69 64 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-.. .. -.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a l i d a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 006C 0069 0064 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667787570678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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