ENSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ensure mean? 

• ENSURE (verb)
  The verb ENSURE has 2 senses:

1. make certain of

2. be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

  Familiarity information: ENSURE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENSURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ensure    ... he / she / it ensures   
Past simple: ensured   
Past participle: ensured   
-ing form: ensuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make certain of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

assure; ensure; guarantee; insure; secure

Context example:

Preparation will guarantee success!

Verb group:

guarantee; vouch (give surety or assume responsibility)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ensure"):

doom (make certain of the failure or destruction of)

make (assure the success of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

ascertain; assure; check; control; ensure; insure; see; see to it

Context example:

control the quality of the product

Hypernyms (to "ensure" is one way to...):

verify (confirm the truth of)

Verb group:

check; check off; mark; mark off; tick; tick off (put a check mark on or near or next to)

check (verify by consulting a source or authority)

ascertain; check; determine; find out; learn; see; watch (find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort)

control; verify (check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ensure"):

proof; proofread (read for errors)

control (verify by using a duplicate register for comparison)

double-check (check once more to be absolutely sure)

cross-check (check out conflicting sources; crosscheck facts, for example)

cinch (make sure of)

card (ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor)

spot-check (pick out random samples for examination in order to ensure high quality)

cover (maintain a check on; especially by patrolling)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

However, it added that mental health interventions for young people must be carefully planned to “ensure that they are accepted by them and that they will be useful”.

(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)

The findings from this study highlight the relevance of energetics for ensuring normal brain function and reveal how it is disrupted by excessive alcohol consumption.

(Study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects, National Institutes of Health)

This representation helps ensure that the study findings could be widely applicable to people at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

(Vitamin D does not prevent type 2 diabetes in people at high risk, National Institutes of Health)

Each of the 64 items on the test was presented only once to ensure that the targets, but not the foils, were represented by an episodic memory.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

This ensures they have a place in industries that serve niche markets and pay more for raw materials with unusual properties—which is the case with cosmetics and dietary supplements.

(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)

However, ensuring proper dosing may be a challenge.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Ensuring that data used and generated by a program is correct.

(Device Data Validation Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Performing a review of the manufacturing steps and processes to ensure that they were met and followed and that the device records reflected these processes.

(Device Manufacturing Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Disintegrant excipient is a therapeutically inactive ingredient of a solid pharmaceutical dosage form that helps the form to dissolve within the gastrointestinal tract to ensure full release of the pharmaceutically active material.

(Disintegrant Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

Venus will begin to orbit in Aries on February 7 until March 4, ensuring February—and Valentine’s Day—will be a standout.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)