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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Prove \Prove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Proved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Proving}.] [OE. prover, F. prouver, fr. L. probare to try,
approve, prove, fr. probus good, proper. Cf. {Probable},
{Proof}, {Probe}.]
1. 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.
Thou hast proved mine heart. --Ps. xvii. 3.
2. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or
fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
They have inferred much from slender premises, and
conjectured when they could not prove. --J. H.
Newman.
3. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of;
to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by
trial; to experience; to suffer.
Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.
--Spenser.
5. (Arith.) 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.
6. (Printing) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof
of; as, to prove a page.
Syn: To try; verify; justify; confirm; establish; evince;
manifest; show; demonstrate.
Prove \Prove\, v. i.
1. To make trial; to essay.
2. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out
to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves
false. ``The case proves mortal.'' --Arbuthnot.
So life a winter's morn may prove. --Keble.
3. To succeed; to turn out as expected. [Obs.] ``The
experiment proved not.'' --Bacon.
資料來源 : WordNet®
prove
v 1: be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The
medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up
HIV positive" [syn: {turn out}, {turn up}]
2: establish the validity of something, as by an example,
explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated
the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician
showed the validity of the conjecture" [syn: {demonstrate},
{establish}, {show}, {shew}] [ant: {disprove}]
3: provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the
father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
[syn: {testify}, {bear witness}, {evidence}, {show}]
4: prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
5: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental
use to; "This approach has been tried with good results";
"Test this recipe" [syn: {test}, {try}, {try out}, {examine},
{essay}]
6: increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
[syn: {rise}]
7: cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread" [syn: {raise},
{leaven}]
8: take a trial impression of
9: obtain probate of; "prove a will"
[also: {proven}]