prove

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /pɹəʊv/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 […]
动词 v.
  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.
    Fanny Hill
  2. simple past of proove form-of,past
  3. To turn out; to manifest. intransitive
    — It proved to be a cold day.
  4. To turn out to be. copulative
    — Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.
  5. To put to the test, to make trial of. transitive
    — They took the experimental car to the proving-grounds.
  6. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify. transitive
    — to prove a will
  7. To experience. archaic,transitive
    — Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.
  8. To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of. dated,transitive
    — to prove a page
  9. Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”). alt-of,alternative
  10. To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
counterprove disprovability disprovable disprovably disprove disproved disproven exception that proves the rule fend and prove misprove overprove provability provable provably prove oneself prove out prover proving ground reprove unprovability unprovable unprovably unprove unproved unproven unproving until proven otherwise
相关词
approve probe probity proof the exception proves the rule

词源

词源 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.
词源 2
Simple past form of proove, conjugated as a Germanic strong verb, on the pattern of choose → chose.
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