Difference between Confirming and Positive

What is the difference between Confirming and Positive?

Confirming as a verb is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute. while Positive as a noun is a thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.

Confirming

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

Positive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.A favourable point or characteristic.Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Definitively laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed, precise, emphatic.Fully assured, confident; certain.Overconfident, dogmatic.Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative.Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.Characterized by the existence or presence of qualities or features, rather than by their absence.Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.Characterized by affirmation, constructiveness, or influence for the better; favourable.Actual, real, concrete.Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.Having more protons than electrons.Of number, greater than zero.HIV positive.

Example sentence: Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

We hope you now know whether to use Confirming or Positive in your sentence.

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