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Meaning of 'prove'
Meaning of 'prove' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Prove 
[ v. i.]
- To make trial; to essay. [ v. i.]- To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
- To succeed; to turn out as expected.
2. Prove [ v. t.]
- To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or
standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of
ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. [ v. t.]- To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
- To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
- To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
- To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
- To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
Meaning of 'prove' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. prove [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- obtain probate of
- obtain probate of
Example in sentence:
- prove a will
Meaning (2):
- be shown or be found to be
- be shown or be found to be
Example in sentence:
- She proved to be right;
- She turned up HIV positive;
- The medicine turned out to save her life
Meaning (3):
- provide evidence for
- provide evidence for
Example in sentence:
- Her behavior testified to her incompetence;
- The blood test showed that he was the father
Meaning (4):
- increase in volume
- increase in volume
Example in sentence:
- the dough rose slowly in the warm room
Meaning (5):
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
Example in sentence:
- The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound;
- The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture
Meaning (6):
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
Example in sentence:
- Test this recipe;
- This approach has been tried with good results
Meaning (7):
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- cause to puff up with a leaven
Example in sentence:
- unleavened bread
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