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Ascertain vs Ascertainer - What's the difference?

ascertain | ascertainer |

As a verb ascertain

is to find out definitely; to discover or establish.

As a noun ascertainer is

one who, or that which, ascertains.

ascertain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
    As soon as we ascertain what the situation is, we can plan how to proceed.

    Synonyms

    * determine * discover * establish * find out * learn * work out

    Anagrams

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    ascertainer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, ascertains.
  • * 2009 , Aviva Ben-Ur, Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History (page 109)
    • Dahbany-Miraglia argues that in the Middle East religion was the dominant criterion of ethnic categorization, whereas in the United States skin color and other physical markers often prevailed as ascertainers of Jewishness.