Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To establish the soundness, accuracy, or legitimacy of: synonym: confirm.
  • transitive verb To declare or make legally valid.
  • transitive verb To mark with an indication of official sanction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make valid; confirm; give legal force to.
  • To test the validity of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Check or prove the validity of.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb declare or make legally valid
  • verb make valid or confirm the validity of
  • verb prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
  • verb give evidence for

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word validate.

Examples

  • $validate = $newCommand - > validate (); if (FileMaker:: isError ($validate)) echo 'バリデーションエラー数:'. $validate - > numErrors ();

    マイコミジャーナル 2009

  • Did the title validate his decision to burn a year of eligibility for what amounted to less than half a season?

    Statesman - AP Sports 2009

  • Did the title validate his decision to burn a year of eligibility for what amounted to less than half a season?

    SacBee -- Latest News 2009

  • What happens when your sidebar area doesn’t validate is that one of the closing tags is usually missing.

    Conquering Site Validation Errors « Lorelle on WordPress 2005

  • She represents the other model of feminism, a feminism that the movie does not validate, that is about political power.

    Enchanted Theodora Goss 2008

  • Block-level snapshotting is much easier to validate, which is nice for something trusted with our MP3 stashes.

    Snell-Pym » Block device snapshots in NetBSD 2008

  • As you can see above we have a Hudson job called validate-translations that runs a number of localisation related build steps.

    Planet Mozilla dwayne 2010

  • If you have something to prove, aka validate you are making progress to your investors, you need to ensure you can give one well.

    Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm 2009

  • To perform server-side validations on your Business Object you simply call the validate () method of the application.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend Bob Silverberg 2009

  • Rails doesn't provide predefined validations for these cases, but if we define a function called validate, then Rails knows to call that function before saving to the database: Listing

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows midpoint 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.