ascertain
Oxford 1001 vocabularyIELTS vocabulary1100 vocabularyGRE vocabularyas‧cer‧tain /ˌæsəˈteɪn $ ˌæsər-/ verb [intransitive and transitive]
معلوم کردن، ثابت کردن، معین کردن
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Advanced Persian Dictionaryتعیین کردن، محقق کردن،
قانون فقه: تحقیق کردن معلوم کردن
[TahlilGaran] Persian Dictionary ▲
Synonyms & Related Wordsascertain[verb]Synonyms: find out, confirm, determine, discover, establish, learn
Contrasted words: assume, presume, conjecture, guess, surmise
Related Words: ask,
inquire,
interrogate,
query,
question,
appraise,
inspect,
observe,
survey,
view,
consider,
contemplate,
study,
weigh [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English Dictionaryas‧cer‧tain /ˌæsəˈteɪn $ ˌæsər-/
verb [intransitive and transitive][
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: Old French;
Origin: acertainer, from certain]
formal to find out something
Synonym : establish:
A postmortem was ordered to try to ascertain the cause of death.ascertain whether/what/how etc Tests were conducted to ascertain whether pollution levels have dropped.ascertain that Police had ascertained that the dead man knew his killer.ascertain something from somebody/something You should ascertain the level of insurance cover from the car rental company.—ascertainable adjective
REGISTERAscertain is used mainly in formal or technical contexts. In everyday English, people usually say
find out:
We need to find out exactly what happened before we jump to any conclusions. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲