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verify

verb
/ˈvɛɹɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From Old French verifier (French: vérifier), from Medieval Latin vērificāre (“make true”), from Latin vērus (“true”) + faciō (“do, make”); see -fy.

  1. derived from vērus
  2. derived from verifier

Definitions

  1. To substantiate or prove the truth of something.

    • "It is early to judge," he remarked, after stopping the car in order to verify the name on the brass plate, "but, upon my word, Max, I really think that our ghost might have discovered more appropriate quarters."

  2. To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.

    • In comparison, it takes about a minute to save, rewind and manually verify a similar file on a cassette.

  3. To affirm something formally, under oath.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at verify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at verify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at verify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA