What's the difference between certify and warrant?

Certify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.
  • (v. t.) To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify.
  • (v. t.) To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (2) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
  • (3) The performance of candidates on the geriatric medicine items on the American Board of Internal Medicine's 1980, 1981, and 1982 Certifying Examinations was analyzed.
  • (4) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
  • (5) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (6) Latex particles, including BCR Certified Reference Material CRM 166a, have important applications for checking linearity and for calibrating aperture-impedance instruments used to determine red-cell volumes.
  • (7) The British Medical Association could have been requested to appoint a monitor who could now certify the team's achievement while simultaneously avoiding publicity focused on the Browns with whom the scientist-physician have achieved their success.
  • (8) He continues to be certified as clinically depressed by his GP and a local psychiatrist.
  • (9) Despite spanning more than 1,300 acres it will not, apparently, be a contender for the title of world's largest: that appears still to reside with the 47-stage Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, as certified by Guinness World Records .
  • (10) A chartered certified accountant, he was educated at University College London and holds UK citizenship but is based in Monaco with his wife and two children.
  • (11) Additional staff anesthesiologists, certified nurse-anesthetists, and anesthesia residents should be on call for other emergency surgery.
  • (12) A survey of certified regional poison centers in the United States was performed to determine sources of treatment information for mushroom intoxications, and extent of reporting of mushroom epidemiological data to a national mushroom case registry.
  • (13) Three groups of allied health professionals, including dental hygienists, dietitians, and certified nurse-midwives, were surveyed to determine current practice, beliefs, and attitudes regarding health promotion and disease prevention.
  • (14) The author uses his experience as a certified dental technician to discuss arch and tooth preparation, clasping, and proper impression technique.
  • (15) He suggests that, to prevent abuse of the law and pressure being put on chronic sufferers to end their lives, two doctors should certify a patient is terminally ill and patients should declare their intentions before an independent witness.
  • (16) A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine examined the percentage of physicians listed under specialty headings in a Yellow Pages publication who were board certified.
  • (17) X-ray studies of the ankle joints of 209 patients with operatively certified ankle joint instability were examined retrospectively in order to estimate the importance of lateral instability in causing degenerative osteoarthritis of the ankle joint.
  • (18) This paper reports the results of a survey of 1000 certified dental assistants in Ontario, Canada.
  • (19) Making sure consumers in Asia are buying certified sustainable palm oil would really push the agenda forward,” says Adam Harrison, the palm oil lead for WWF International.
  • (20) The objectives of this study were: (1) to estimate the inter- and intra-laboratory variability associated with the extraction of mixtures for bioassay, (2) to estimate the inter- and intra-laboratory variability associated with the Salmonella typhimurium bioassay when applied to complex mixtures, and (3) to determine whether standard reference complex mixtures would be useful in mutagenicity studies and to evaluate whether reference or certified mutagenicity values determined from this collaborative study should be reported.

Warrant


Definition:

  • (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
  • (n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
  • (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
  • (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.
  • (n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
  • (n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.
  • (n.) Right; legality; allowance.
  • (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
  • (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
  • (n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
  • (n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
  • (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
  • (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
  • (n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (2) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
  • (3) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
  • (4) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (5) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
  • (6) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
  • (7) Terminal forces directed posteriorly and to the right and with a delay no longer than 0,03 inches do not warrant the diagnosis of left anterior hemiblock with a right bundle branch block associated.
  • (8) The impact of this activation on the remission rate and duration, as well as survival in patients with NHL, warrants further investigation.
  • (9) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
  • (10) Further trials are warranted to compare this regimen to other active combinations and to use it as a component of a program of treatment using alternating regimens of chemotherapy.
  • (11) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
  • (12) These cases suggest that the role of R. sanguineus in the transmission of the etiologic agent of canine ehrlichiosis and other pathogenic organisms to humans may be underestimated and warrants investigation.
  • (13) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
  • (14) The use of tribavirin warrants further study, possibly combined with new therapeutic methods.
  • (15) We conclude that CMV is not a pathogen in the lungs of patients with HIV infection, and we suggest that its presence at this site does not warrant specific therapy in these patients.
  • (16) On the basis of this experience, further investigation of the intrapericardial administration of cisplatin as treatment to control malignant pericardial effusions appears warranted.
  • (17) The authors suggest that while differences in root length may be useful in determining treatment options, thinking of these variables as separate types of dentin dysplasia is not warranted at this time.
  • (18) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.
  • (19) The best documented and most clearly effective use of duplex sonography is for detecting severe obstructive lesions in the carotid artery that might warrant endarterectomy in patients with cerebral hemispheric symptoms.
  • (20) He compared the situation to insider trading or corruption, in which there may not be direct proof of a criminal quid pro quo taking place, but where there is a pattern of behaviour that warrants attention.