What's the difference between validate and vindicate?

Validate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (4) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
  • (5) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (6) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (7) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (8) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (9) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (10) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
  • (11) Specifically, we apply techniques of data preprocessing, orthogonality constraints, and validation of solutions in a complete TC analysis, for the first time using actual MEP data.
  • (12) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
  • (13) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
  • (14) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
  • (15) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (16) Validity of the fructosamine assay allows its potential use as a mass screening test for diabetes in these populations (USA, Africa, Caribbean...).
  • (17) Furthermore, CV1% and DV6% have proved to be valid parameters in finding differences in the light reflex in non-age-matched study groups.
  • (18) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
  • (19) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
  • (20) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.

Vindicate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
  • (v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.
  • (v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.
  • (v. t.) To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
  • (v. t.) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
  • (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
  • (2) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
  • (3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
  • (4) Jonathan Rees, who was yesterday cleared of murdering his former business partner, Daniel Morgan, is a private investigator of a particularly unpleasant and vindicative kind.
  • (5) It represents something of a vindication for Spielberg whose last high-minded awards contender, the first-world-war drama War Horse, failed to win anything at the last edition of either the Globes or the Oscars.
  • (6) Yet victory at Wembley will be hailed as vindication of the decision to change manager.
  • (7) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Osborne: Google tax deal vindicates government approach The Guardian understands that Google’s 2014-15 taxes increased by £13.8m under the new formula.
  • (9) Vilified, prosecuted, but – in the court of public opinion – ultimately vindicated: this is what happens to the heroes of democracy.
  • (10) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said: "This is hugely significant, as it completely vindicates the big decision taken by David Cameron and myself on the economy, and it leaves Gordon Brown's political plans for the G20 and the budget in tatters."
  • (11) Cimarosa's break with the rules of omertà appears to vindicate the policy of asset seizures, which have cut Messina Denaro's cash flow and forced him to squeeze his backers harder for funds.
  • (12) Stable healing of the ligament and a good functional result in all cases as well as a very low rate of complications vindicate this management.
  • (13) Balls also reveals the personal sense of vindication he felt when the chancellor had to admit in the autumn statement how much higher borrowing is going to be in the future.
  • (14) Every effort was made to discredit those who rejected the case for invasion and occupation – and would before long be comprehensively vindicated.
  • (15) The press conference comes one day after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said Trump was “extremely confident” that the justice department would produce evidence to the House committee that vindicated the president’s accusation.
  • (16) The comedy, in which she stars as gaffe-prone vice-president Selina Meyer, has been seen as a personal triumph for Louis-Dreyfus, as well as a stateside vindication for the comic method of its creator, Armando Iannucci .
  • (17) That reality, and its vindication of the miners’ stand , is well understood 30 years later, and reflected in the power of contemporary films such as Pride and the new documentary Still the Enemy Within .
  • (18) Pékerman had insisted life would go on without Falcao and was thoroughly vindicated.
  • (19) Schalke's 20-year-old Ivan Rakitic showed why he is so highly rated and vindicated Bilic's decision to aim for more mobility by picking him as an auxiliary attacker at the expense of Mladen Petric.
  • (20) The results also vindicate the current policy of giving BCG vaccine at birth and probably indicates the need to revaccinate at school leaving age, in accordance with WHO recommendations.