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Prove

//pɹuːv// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of dough proofing.

    "You may also need to think about what the prove is doing to the loaf of bread — it is warming the dough and making it moist, allowing it to rise […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify. transitive

    "[VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs."

  2. 2
    simple past of proove form-of, past
  3. 3
    establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment wordnet
  4. 4
    To turn out; to manifest. intransitive

    "It proved to be a cold day."

  5. 5
    prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof wordnet
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  1. 6
    To turn out to be. copulative

    "Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect."

  2. 7
    obtain probate of wordnet
  3. 8
    To put to the test, to make trial of. transitive

    "They took the experimental car to the proving-grounds."

  4. 9
    provide evidence for wordnet
  5. 10
    To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify. transitive

    "to prove a will"

  6. 11
    take a trial impression of wordnet
  7. 12
    To experience. archaic, transitive

    "Where she, captived long, great woes did prove."

  8. 13
    cause to puff up with a leaven wordnet
  9. 14
    To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of. dated, transitive

    "to prove a page"

  10. 15
    increase in volume wordnet
  11. 16
    Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”). alt-of, alternative
  12. 17
    put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to wordnet
  13. 18
    To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
  14. 19
    be shown or be found to be wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English proven, from Old English prōfian (“to esteem, regard as, evince, try, prove”) and Old French prover (“to prove”), both from Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Displaced native Middle English sothen (“to prove”), from Old English sōþian (“to prove”). Doublet of probe. More at for, be, soothe.

Etymology 2

From Middle English proven, from Old English prōfian (“to esteem, regard as, evince, try, prove”) and Old French prover (“to prove”), both from Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Displaced native Middle English sothen (“to prove”), from Old English sōþian (“to prove”). Doublet of probe. More at for, be, soothe.

Etymology 3

Simple past form of proove, conjugated as a Germanic strong verb, on the pattern of choose → chose.

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