What's the difference between exemplar and prove?

Exemplar


Definition:

  • (n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
  • (n.) A copy of a book or writing.
  • (a.) Exemplary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Encephalitis lethargica is presented as an exemplaric neuropsychiatric illness.
  • (2) Two individuals with severe mental retardation, employed by a janitorial supply company, were taught to use self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplar training to solve work-related problems.
  • (3) Implications for the contact hypothesis, category-exemplar relations, and belief stability are discussed.
  • (4) For their exemplar role, physicians and teachers are on the front line of antismoking action: convincing them to stop smoking is, thus, an obvious priority.
  • (5) Generalization and maintenance of trained sentence types to novel exemplars and novel stimulus conditions served as dependent measures.
  • (6) Results of the study suggest that the CCNs surveyed were not fulfilling their roles as health exemplars.
  • (7) The results of Experiments 1 and 2 provide clear support for this prediction in contradistinction to predictions from probability matching, exemplar retrieval, or simple prototype learning models.
  • (8) Multiple exemplars may be necessary for other criteria.
  • (9) The production frequency of exemplars for 16 categories was obtained from institutionalized mentally retarded adults and compared with those of nonretarded children, adolescents, and adults and with typicality ratings given by the same retarded subjects previously.
  • (10) It is argued that natural selection was for Darwin a paradigmatic case of a natural law of change -- an exemplar of what Ghiselin (1969) has called selective retention laws.
  • (11) The items included normal adult foods and exemplars of different adult rejection categories: disgust (e.g.
  • (12) Specific MHF exemplars, the problem-solutions, were constructed from extant scientific literature; two models of health guiding MHF research were generated from these exemplars.
  • (13) In addition to membership in the same category, preoperational subjects required that both exemplars be typical before categorizing them together on the Sample-Match Task.
  • (14) Pathfinder was New Labour at its worst, an exemplar of its authoritarianism, its arrogant assumption that the core vote can be screwed over indefinitely, and its blind faith in the market.
  • (15) Differential-approach tendencies of individual incubator-hatched chickens and Japanese quail were assayed using one exemplar of each of the species maternal calls in a simultaneous-choice paradigm.
  • (16) The findings are interpreted within the framework of a general array model that yields both exemplar-similarity and feature-frequency models as special cases and provides quantitative accounts of the course of learning in each of the categorization tasks studied.
  • (17) Infants 7 to 8.5 months of age were tested for their discrimination of timbre or sound quality differences in the context of variable exemplars.
  • (18) Until there is genuine political leadership on this issue the system will remain failing.” The prime minister courted what he called the “visionary” Kids Company during his mission to detoxify the Tory party while in opposition, and cited it in his infamous “hug a hoodie” speech in 2006 as an exemplar of the type of public service he wanted to see – one which concentrated on “emotional quality” rather than hitting bureaucratic targets.
  • (19) The effectiveness of the category-specific retrieval cue was a function of its physical similarity to the individual exemplars encountered during training, not testing.
  • (20) If we did this, many of our current policies simply could not continue – mandatory detention, turnbacks without proper screening, offshore processing without rigorous oversight and durable solutions in place.” McAdam said, historically, Australia had had one of the best refugee status determination systems in the world, and could be an exemplar again.

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.