prove
has definitions from the fields of mathematics,printing,food
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[ verb ] be shown or be found to be
Examples "She proved to be right" "The medicine turned out to save her life" "She turend up HIV positive" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Then Heywood_Sullivan , Kansas_City catcher , singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run . (The Dallas Morning News,...)It was the first time we 've been ahead this season ( when John_Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field_goal ) '' . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)The same can be said of shaving yet the electric_razor has proved useful to many men . But for many_of us , it will prove an enjoyable luxury . ("Editorials"...)But at_least the pessimists who believed that the world_organization had plunged to its death in that plane crash in the Congo have been proved wrong . |
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[ verb ] establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
Synonyms Examples "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound" "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" Related terms disprove confirm prove_oneself condemn negate stultify establishment |
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[ verb ] establish the validity of something
Synonyms Examples "This behavior shows his true nature" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)About that same time John_Crosby 's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing_space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do . (The Providence Journal...)Berman , whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night_club monologist , proved himself very much at_home in musical_comedy . Instead - and not just to prove my objectivity - I hasten to report that it 's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort_Lauderdale , and that it seems to come_to_grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age_group - that_is_to_say , sex . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)He remembered exactly when he had lived through it before , and he had something to prove he had . (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts . |
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[ verb ] provide evidence for
Synonyms Examples "The blood test showed that he was the father" "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" Used in print (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)Oddly_enough , it is proven that there would be less reading difficulty . |
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[ verb ] (mathematics) prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
Used in print (Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described , since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial , whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree . We shall prove that * * f . (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)We can now prove several lemmas . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (printing) take a trial impression of
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[ verb ] obtain probate of, as of a will
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