Definition of Prove

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Definition of Prove

Prove

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.

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.

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Prove Quotations

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Prove Translations

prove in Danish is bevise
prove in Dutch is bewijzen, aantonen
prove in Italian is provare
prove in Latin is comprobo, experior (experiri; expertus ), probo
prove in Spanish is verificar

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