Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ascertained
IPA transcription: [,æsɚt'eɪnd]
Pronunciations of ascertained
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ascertained, discovered, observed
    Meaning: discovered or determined by scientific observation; "variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors"; "the discovered behavior norms"; "discovered differences in achievement"; "no explanation for the observed phenomena"
Usage examples
  • We never ascertained, and now, alas! we never shall, at least not yet.
  • Thus at Yakoutsk in Siberia the increase of a degree is ascertained to be reached every 36 feet.
  • Having ascertained its situation, Carton came out of those closer streets again, and dined at a place of refreshment and fell sound asleep after dinner.
  • And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as the weight of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained at the level of the sea.
  • These, I ascertained later, were the dormitories, or sleeping-cells, and were placed side by side in a row opening on the terrace at the back of the house.
  • Whence he came, I never ascertained. Even about his age--although I call him a young gentleman--there was something which perplexed me in no little degree.
  • It was soon ascertained that not more than twenty persons would take chances; but these twenty agreed to take the number of shots, at twenty-five cents each.
  • In the daytime she performed, to the best of her ability, the part of her mistress--whose person, it had been carefully ascertained, was unknown to any of the passengers on board.
  • Heat twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved potash, and boil them together till the whole becomes a thick jelly, which is ascertained by taking a little of it out to get cold.
  • Comparative anatomy has not as yet been sufficiently improved; neither have the observations of natural philosophy been sufficiently ascertained, to establish upon such foundations the basis of a solid system.
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