What's the difference between drove and prove?

Drove


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Drive
  • (imp.) of Drive.
  • (n.) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
  • (n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
  • (n.) A crowd of people in motion.
  • (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
  • (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
  • (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
  • (n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
  • (2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
  • (3) After an hour or so, a car appeared, and another Isis man drove Abu Ali to a reception house not far away.
  • (4) Drivers with little education and low income, younger drivers, and drivers who drove after heavy drinking or marijuana use, or both, were least likely to wear seatbelts.
  • (5) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
  • (6) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
  • (7) While it has not dominated the enormous mobile phone market in terms of sales – Apple has sold 41m handsets in three years, the same number Nokia sells in a month – it has won much of the more lucrative smartphone market, and drove its competitors to develop their own touchscreen handsets.
  • (8) After eating, the report says, Castro "returned to the bus and drove around for a while.
  • (9) City’s equaliser came from the failure of Serge Aurier and Thiago Silva to clear a Bacary Sagna cross as Fernandinho drove the ball home after 72 minutes.
  • (10) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
  • (11) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
  • (12) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
  • (13) So the newspapers will be delighted with director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer's announcement that the Lib Dem cabinet minister has been charged over the allegation – apparently made in a moment of anger by his former wife, the economist Vicky Pryce – that he had asked someone to take his speeding points on his behalf when the then-MEP allegedly drove home too fast from Stansted airport in 2003.
  • (14) The Tunisian delivery driver who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice on Thursday sent a text message just before the attack about his supply of weapons.
  • (15) They tried first to enter it in their patrol car from the south side, the side where Alex’s parents lived, then turned around and drove in from the north side, going around the barrier that keeps vehicles out and heading up the road that is often full of runners, walkers and dogs at that time of day.
  • (16) Some of them had protesters dancing on them as they drove along.
  • (17) Given that it was difficult for Huhne to get to the airport by public transport to catch his early-morning flight on the Monday, it was likely he drove, as usual – which would have meant her travelling to the airport by public transport in order to drive him home, the crown claimed.
  • (18) It said falling fuel prices and mobile phone charges drove the decline in the consumer price index (CPI) and were only partially offset by rising food prices.
  • (19) Nine people were taken to hospital after a man believed to be Darren Osborne, 47, from Cardiff, drove into worshippers near the Muslim Welfare House mosque.
  • (20) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.

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.