| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To attest, authenticate, testify or vouch.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To guarantee, assure, ensure, insure or underwrite. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To affirm, confirm, assert, ratify or aver. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To pretend. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To verify, ascertain or prove. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To secure or fasten.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb certify.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (certify) | 1. Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes.[Wordnet]. 2. Guarantee payment on; of checks.[Wordnet]. 3. Authorize officially.[Wordnet]. 4. Guarantee as meeting a certain standard.[Wordnet]. 5. Declare legally insane.[Wordnet]. 6. To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.[Websters]. 7. To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify.[Websters]. 8. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: certifying, certified, certifies, certifier, certifiers, certifyingly and certifiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being validating.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being entertaining. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being satisfying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being convincing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being encouraging.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CERTIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CERTIFYING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Giving a written testimony, or certificate; giving certain notice; making certainly known.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of certify. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: CERTIFYING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Certifying of accounts | Business | The expression of a professional opinion on the accounts and the financial statements by an authorized external auditor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Certifying Officer | Business | An accountable officer responsible for and required to reimburse personally the government for any illegal or otherwise improper payment made by a disbursing officer because of his or her certification. (references) | |
| Certifying Official | Information Technology | A plant regulatory employee authorized to inspect and certify the phytosanitary conditions of plants and plant products offered for export and to issue FPC's. Therefore, PPQ officers, State cooperators, and county cooperators (California only) can all be certifying officials when specific criteria are met. For simplification, "certifying officials" is used instead of writing the three types of plant regulatory employees each time they are mentioned throughout this manual. (references) | |
| Certifying official | Physics | For military and Department of the Army (DA) civilian personnel, the immediate commander (or, if civil service, the director) who is responsible for the operation or security, or both, of chemical weapons or materiel. If the commander or director is a colonel or a GM/GS-15, or above, he or she may delegate subordinates to act as organization-certifying officials. Such designees should be supervisors who can feasibly maintain sufficient contact to continually evaluate personnel. For Army contractor personnel, the Army official so designated in the contract is the certifying official. The certifying official validates that personnel considered for assignment to chemical surety duties meet the qualification requirements of the Chemical Personnel Reliability Program. Source: US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (Provisional). Glossary of Terms for Chemical Agents and Chemical Defense Equipment. USACHPPM, 1994. See also: chemical surety, personnel reliability program. (references) | |
| State certifying official | Census | An official designated by the governor of each state to review and certify that the Census Bureau's inventory of local governmental units in that state is accurate, and that reported boundary changes were accomplished in accordance with state law. See Boundary and Annexation Survey. (references) | |
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