Verify vs Crosscheck - What's the difference?
verify | crosscheck |
To substantiate or prove the truth of something
To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something
(legal) To affirm something formally, under oath
(ice hockey) A penalty.
(lacrosse) A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.
(lacrosse) To hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Dave Caldwell, Goalie Takes a Long Trip to Reach the N.H.L., New York Times
, passage=He picked up a roughing penalty for crosschecking Montreal’s Andrei Kostitsyn to the ice Tuesday after Kostitsyn hit Boston defenseman Aaron Ward from behind. }}
To re-examine; to double-check.
As verbs the difference between verify and crosscheck
is that verify is to substantiate or prove the truth of something while crosscheck is to hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.As a noun crosscheck is
a penalty.verify
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* * English transitive verbscrosscheck
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