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✅ To show truth 🧪 To test 🍞 To let rise 🖨️ To print test
to prove

to prove

1 8.3
Make a test print to check for mistakes before the final print
  • verb
  • /pruːv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : probar
  • It embosses the paper at that exact time to prove that you were at that station and doing your rounds.

Examples

  • Philosophy uses symbols, numbers, and geometrical relations to prove a statement valid or invalid, whereas reality is not explained but realized by experience.

    Blog text (6)

  • Over the intervening years, researchers have created a rich set of tools and techniques, from design practices to improved programming languages to techniques for proving program correctness.

    Academic text (2005)

  • But those she does cannot simply be regarded as the exceptions that prove the rule.

    Academic text (1991)

  • But it's not illegal to give your opinion about someone, even if you can't prove that opinion.

    Blog text (21)

  • OK, so to prove this we use the fundamental theorem of calculus.

  • This is where the minutes or taped conversation of the initial conference would prove invaluable to illustrate the essence of the problem and what was actually discussed rather than submitting to conjectures and innuendos of each party.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The printer produced a sample page to prove the colors were accurate before the final print.

  • Before finalizing the design, we need to prove the layout by printing a test run.

  • The technician gave a preview copy to prove that the settings were correct for the final production.

Phrasal Verbs

to prove oneself
76 4.8

To show you are capable, skilled or brave by meeting a challenge

to prove otherwise
15 5.2

Show that the opposite is true

How Final

to publish
∞ 3.3
to print
397 1.0
to prove
  • Specialized
1 8.3
test
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

prove infinitive
proved past
proved past participle
proving present participle
proves third person singular

Etymology

Prove in printing comes from Latin probare 'to test' and the same root that gives us proof, because printers make a test print to check a plate before the final run. So to prove a block or plate is to make a trial print to check it.