Meaning of 'prove' (Webster Dictionary)
- To make trial; to essay.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
Meaning (1):
- provide evidence for
Example in sentence:- Her behavior testified to her incompetence;
- The blood test showed that he was the father
Meaning (2):
- obtain probate of
Meaning (3):
- 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 (4):
- 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 (5):
- increase in volume
Example in sentence:- the dough rose slowly in the warm room
Meaning (6):
- 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 (7):
- cause to puff up with a leaven
Definition
[ v. i.]