(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.
Turnout
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(2) The same is also true of both local votes and byelections – and the electoral dynamics and relative turnout of these races is very different from a general election.
(3) Given this bipartisan strategy to minimise commitments, there is little wonder that voter turnout also reached a historical low, with less than two thirds bothering to vote in the east.
(4) The turnout was 34% – about half of that for a general election.
(5) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(6) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
(7) In the end, turnout on Thursday was a respectable 40.26%, with 7,115 of the 27,791 ballots cast via postal votes.
(8) No study until now has examined the impact of the physical and psychological condition on voter turnout among elderly African Americans and Caucasians.
(9) He also flags up that there is reportedly a high turnout across the country from Greece's school teachers for today's strike.
(10) Every classical dancer aims to achieve perfect turnout.
(11) I like that these guys have zero tolerance for corruption and want more transparency.” Support for Podemos was quite high in Chipiona, she said, a fact obscured by the event’s low turnout.
(12) Far below such low turnout elections as the 2012 Manchester Central byelection (18.2%) or the 1999 European elections (24%).
(13) Some Pegida supporters, however, expressed disappointment at the size of the turnout.
(14) With fewer than 50,000 votes separating the two candidates, turnout appears to have been key.
(15) If the statistic remains unchanged, it will mean an even lower turnout than the 12% who cast a vote to elect the previous commissioner two years ago.
(16) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
(17) According to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33% who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the 41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.
(18) 'This was a protest vote': Sicilian city where 75% said no to Matteo Renzi Read more While most analysts do not think February is realistic timing, the statement nevertheless indicated that Renzi sees a path to defeating the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League, even after 60% of Italians rejected the prime minister in a high-turnout referendum on constitutional changes.
(19) At the time of spring turnout, a bolus was administered to each calf or yearling in the treated group.
(20) It is worth noting that last year the average voter turnout for FTSE 100 companies was just 62%, so getting close to 90% is an incredible – but in this case necessary – achievement.