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# verifiable

«verifiable» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to be checked and shown to be true or false** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (verifiable)

### meaning for a pupil

Verifiable means able to be checked and shown to be true or false. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science, news and research lessons: «verifiable facts», «a verifiable source». It teaches pupils to tell checked facts from rumours and opinions.

### examples

- Use verifiable facts in your report. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#x1)
- Is that claim verifiable, or is it just a rumour? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#x2)
- A good scientist makes verifiable predictions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#x3)
- The website gives no verifiable source for its story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#x4)
- Your age is verifiable from your birth certificate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#x5)
- A fact is verifiable; an opinion is not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/#x6)

### note

From «verify» (to check that something is true). Verifiable does not mean already proved true: it means it CAN be checked. A verifiable claim may turn out to be false.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «verifiable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verifiable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.