Probe vs. Prove

Probenoun

(surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

Probenoun

(figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.

Probenoun

An act of probing; a prod, a poke.

Probenoun

(figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.

Probenoun

(aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.

Probenoun

(sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.

Probenoun

(astronautics) A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.

Probenoun

(game of go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy

Probenoun

(biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure

Probeverb

To explore, investigate, or question

Probeverb

(transitive) To insert a probe into.

Probeverb

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

Probeverb

Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.

Probenoun

An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.

Probenoun

an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities;

Probenoun

a flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities

Probenoun

an exploratory action or expedition

Probenoun

an investigation conducted using a probe instrument

Probeverb

question or examine thoroughly and closely

Probeverb

examine physically with or as if with a probe;

Probenoun

a blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body.

Probenoun

a small device, especially an electrode, used for measuring, testing, or obtaining information.

Probenoun

a thorough investigation into a crime or other matter

Probenoun

an unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transmit information about its environment.

Probenoun

a projecting device for engaging in a drogue, either on an aircraft for use in in-flight refuelling or on a spacecraft for use in docking with another craft.

Probeverb

physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument

Probeverb

enquire into someone or something closely

Proveverb

(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

Proveverb

(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

Proveverb

(copulative) To turn out to be.

Proveverb

(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.

Proveverb

(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

Proveverb

To experience

Proveverb

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

Provenoun

(baking) The process of dough proofing.

Proveverb

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.

Proveverb

To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

Proveverb

To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

Proveverb

To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

Proveverb

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.

Proveverb

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

Proveverb

To make trial; to essay.

Proveverb

To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

Proveverb

To succeed; to turn out as expected.

Proveverb

be shown or be found to be;

Proveverb

establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

Proveverb

provide evidence for;

Proveverb

prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof

Proveverb

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Proveverb

increase in volume;

Proveverb

cause to puff up with a leaven;

Proveverb

take a trial impression of

Proveverb

obtain probate of;