Verify vs Protect - What's the difference?
verify | protect | Related terms |
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
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
Verify is a related term of protect.
As verbs the difference between verify and protect
is that verify is to substantiate or prove the truth of something while protect is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.verify
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(en-verb)Derived terms
* verification * verifiable * unverifiedExternal links
* * English transitive verbsprotect
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(en verb)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}