prove has definitions from the fields of mathematics,printing,food
1
[ verb ] be shown or be found to be

Synonyms

turn_out turn_up

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 .

Related terms

be result

2
[ verb ] establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment

Examples

"The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound" "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

3
[ verb ] establish the validity of something

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 .

4
[ verb ] provide evidence for

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 .

5
[ 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

demonstrate mathematics

6
[ verb ] put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

Examples

"This approach has been tried with good results" "Test this recipe"

7
[ verb ] (printing) take a trial impression of

Related terms

print

8
[ verb ] (food) increase in volume

Synonyms

rise

Examples

"the dough rose slowly in the warm room"

Related terms

grow

9
[ verb ] cause to puff up with a leaven; of dough

Synonyms

leaven raise

Examples

"unleavened bread"

Related terms

raise rise

10
[ verb ] obtain probate of, as of a will

Related terms

authenticate law

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