What's the difference between aver and prove?

Aver


Definition:

  • (n.) A work horse, or working ox.
  • (v. t.) To assert, or prove, the truth of.
  • (v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
  • (v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The maximum percentage difference between observations was 46% (AVER).
  • (2) Thereafter, ministers alone should make such warnings public, and then only when there is a real prospect that they might aver a tragedy.
  • (3) Correlation coefficients for measurements obtained by two independent observers in 44 studies ranged from r = 0.87 (AVER) to r = 0.96 (TPFR) but spontaneous changes of up to 52% occurred (AVFR).
  • (4) The German and the European common interests coincide, Merkel avers, echoing Helmut Kohl's mantra in the era of Maastricht and German reunification 20 years ago.
  • (5) The protest camp in Ramadi was, Maliki averred, an al-Qaida headquarters.
  • (6) There are others who might aver that the bathroom bashfulness would be unusual during a live burglary, never mind one taking place under the obvious time pressures that would be dictated by it happening in one of the most heavily protected gated communities in one of the most security-obsessed countries on Earth.
  • (7) Gated blood pool studies were performed one week apart in 42 patients and between study correlation coefficients for these measurements ranged from r = 0.58 (TPER) to r = 0.99 (PFR) but there were spontaneous changes in measurements of up to 82% (AVER).
  • (8) The averaged acoustic evoked responses (AAER) exhibit more sensitivity to halothane than the averaged visual evoked responses (AVER).
  • (9) Like vacuoles, "peroxisomal" fractions isolated from yeast spheroplasts as described by Avers[1] contain only one catalase protein, catalase A.
  • (10) Residents aver that women's "naturally" weaker constitutions and a moral imperative to worry places them at greater risk for nerves.
  • (11) Prince declares war on touts as his ticket sales are postponed Read more Paisley Park, the lyrics aver, is filled with laughing children on see-saws and “colourful people” with expressions that “speak of profound inner peace”, whatever they look like.
  • (12) Authors of most textbooks of dermatology and dermatopathology consider guttate parapsoriasis and digitate dermatosis to be variants of small plaque parapsoriasis which, they aver, is not related to mycosis fungoides.
  • (13) Acute toxicity, androgenic, gonadotropic, estrogenic and aphrodisiac effect of the whole medical plant Lithospermum aver arvense and its seeds was investigated on white rats and white mice.
  • (14) An assessment was made of the reproducibility (between study differences) interobserver variability and intraobserver variability of 7 radionuclide measurements describing both resting left ventricular ejection (ejection fraction--EF, average ejection rate--AVER, peak ejection rate--PER, time to peak ejection rate--TPER) and filling (average filling rate--AVFR, peak filling rate--PFR, time to peak filling rate--TPFR).
  • (15) A Corbyn-led Labour can never win the 2020 UK general election, they aver.
  • (16) After operation, despite the clinical improvement, the alterations of AVERs or DPs were very marked and in some cases became even more important than before.
  • (17) Important changes in AVER (in amplitude and latency) were found in the patients with tumours on the midline or in one of the frontal lobes.
  • (18) But the Catholic church, avers Francis, is not an exclusive community of the just, but a big tent of sinners.
  • (19) He averred that the whippings had made him "one of the best artists in the world".
  • (20) Should the CIA or JSOC wish to convince the president to do so, they must aver that they have “near certainty that the target is present”, civilians won’t be harmed, “capture is not feasible” and “no other reasonable alternatives exist”.

Prove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
  • (v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
  • (v. t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
  • (v. i.) To make trial; to essay.
  • (v. i.) To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
  • (v. i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (2) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (5) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (6) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
  • (7) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
  • (8) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (9) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
  • (10) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
  • (11) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
  • (12) A polypotent mechanism of the stimulating effect of fibronectin instillations during all the stages of the reparative process in the corneal tissue was proved.
  • (13) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
  • (14) The data obtained from all groups proved to be consistent.
  • (15) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
  • (16) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
  • (17) The resistance proved to be directly dependent upon the specific antisense RNA and to be inversely proportional to the multiplicity of infecting polyoma.
  • (18) Accordingly, LPA proved an extremely stable characteristic which did not show any substantial variations in the course of five years.
  • (19) The obtained protein fraction proved to be a glycoprotein according to the positive staining with periodic acid Schiff.
  • (20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.