| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To determine, define, resolve or stipulate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To inquire or investigate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To check, inspect, supervise, verify or curb. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To prove or substantiate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To examine, scan or test.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb ascertain.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (ascertain) | 1. Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.[Wordnet]. 2. Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something.[Wordnet]. 3. Learn or discover with certainty.[Wordnet]. 4. After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize".[Wordnet]. 5. Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time".[Wordnet]. 6. To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.[Websters]. 7. To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.[Websters]. 8. To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: ascertaining, ascertained, ascertains, ascertainer, ascertainers, ascertainingly and ascertainedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "ASCERTAINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1535. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ASCERTAINING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making certain; fixing; establishing; reducing to a certainty; obtaining certain knowledge.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of ascertain. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
