Prove vs. Test
Proveverb
(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
Proveverb
(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
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(copulative) To turn out to be.
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(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
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(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.
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To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
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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.
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To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
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To make trial; to essay.
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To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
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To succeed; to turn out as expected.
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be shown or be found to be;
Proveverb
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;
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provide evidence for;
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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;
Testnoun
A challenge, trial.
Testnoun
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Testnoun
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
Testnoun
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
Testnoun
A Test match.
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(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
Testnoun
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
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(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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(obsolete) A witness.
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Testverb
To challenge.
Testverb
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
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(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
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To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
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(copulative) To be shown to be by test.
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(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
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To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
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To make a testament, or will.
Testnoun
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
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Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
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That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
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Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
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Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
Testnoun
A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results.
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A witness.
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The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
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The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
Testverb
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Testverb
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
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To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
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To administer a test to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.
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To make a testament, or will.
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any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc;
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the act of testing something;
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the act of undergoing testing;
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trying something to find out about it;
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a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge;
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a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
Testverb
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
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test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
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examine someone's knowledge of something;
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show a certain characteristic when tested;
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achieve a certain score or rating on a test;
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determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
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undergo a test;
