Certain vs Manifest - What's the difference?

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Certain is a related term of manifest.

As an adjective certain

is certain.

As a noun manifest is

manifesto.

certain

English

Adjective

(wikipedia certain) (en adjective)

Sure, positive, not doubting.

I was certain of my decision.

(obsolete) Determined; resolved.

* Milton

However, I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

* Bible, Dan. ii. 45

The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.

Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.

* Dryden

Virtue that directs our ways / Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.

* Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.

Unfailing; infallible.

* Mead

I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.

* Bible, Ex. xvi. 4

The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.

Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons.

* Bible, Luke v. 12

It came to pass when he was in a certain city.

* Macaulay

About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace and decorum.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (not doubting) uncertain * (sure to happen) impossible, incidental

Derived terms

* certainly

Determiner

(en determiner)

Having been determined but unspecified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class.

* Bible, Acts xxiii. 12

Certain of the Jews banded together.

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manifest

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.

* Bible, Hebrews iv. 13

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight.

Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.

Detected; convicted.

* Dryden (rfdate)

Calistho there stood manifest of shame.

Synonyms

* apparent, plain, clear, distinct, obvious, palpable, patent * See also .

Derived terms

* manifest content * manifest destiny

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto or manifestation.

A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.

(computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.

Verb

(en verb)

To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.

His courage manifested itself via the look on his face.

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''Not I; I must be found;

''My parts, my title, and my perfect soul

''Shall manifest me rightly.

To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

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