Vet vs Verify - What's the difference?
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(colloquial) A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
* {{quote-news
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To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
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
As verbs the difference between vet and verify
is that vet is to thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval while verify is to substantiate or prove the truth of something.As a noun vet
is a veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.vet
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying.}}
Etymology 2
.Usage notes
Although veteran'' can be used in many contexts such as sports or business to describe someone with many years of experience, ''vet is usually used only for former military personnel.Etymology 3
possibly by analogy from Etymology 1, in the sense of "verifying the soundness [of an animal]"Verb
(vett)- The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
References
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