глагол [прошедшее время] proved; причастие прошедшего времени proved, proven 1) а) доказывать Например: You will have to prove to the police that you were at home that night. — Тебе придётся доказать полиции, что той ночью ты был дома. б) удостоверять; подтверждать документами 2) а) испытывать, пробовать Синоним(ы): try, test б) [технический термин] подвергать испытанию технических характеристик Например: This afternoon I proved my rifle-gun. — Сегодня утром я испытал свою винтовку. 3) [математика] осуществлять проверку (вычислений) 4) (prove oneself) самоутверждаться Например: Some people do the strangest things just to prove themselves. — Некоторые люди совершают самые сумасшедшие поступки только для того, чтобы доказать, что они на это способны. 5) [юриспруденция] утверждать (завещание) 6) подтверждать, оправдывать (какое-либо качество) 7) [полиграфическое и издательское дело] делать пробный оттиск 8) оказываться, показывать на практике Например: Despite all the rumours his new performance proved to have a success. — Вопреки всем сплетням и слухам, его новый спектакль действительно имел успех. "appear", "seem", "prove", "happen", "turn out" with complex subject
математика доказывать; обосновывать Например: to prove an equation — доказывать справедливость уравнения to prove by exhaustion — доказывать перебором вариантов to prove by experiment — доказывать путём эксперимента to prove by induction — определять индуктивно to prove a deposit — проводить разведку месторождения to prove rigorously — давать строгое доказательство; строго доказывать
1) проверять; контролировать 2) [математика] доказывать 3) печатать пробный оттиск или корректурный оттиск: получать пробное изображение 4) производить расстойку теста Например: to prove up — определять наличие полезного ископаемого
verb (proved; proved or proven; proving) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French prover, pruver, from Latin probare to test, prove, from probus good, honest, from pro- for, in favor + -bus (akin to Old English bēon to be) — more at pro-, be transitive verb 1. archaic to learn or find out by experience 2. a. to test the truth, validity, or genuineness of Example: the exception proves the rule Example: prove a will at probate b. to test the worth or quality of; specifically to compare against a standard — sometimes used with up or out c. to check the correctness of (as an arithmetic result) 3. a. to establish the existence, truth, or validity of (as by evidence or logic) Example: prove a theorem Example: the charges were never proved in court b. to demonstrate as having a particular quality or worth Example: the vaccine has been proven effective after years of tests Example: proved herself a great actress 4. to show (oneself) to be worthy or capable Example: eager to prove myself in the new job intransitive verb to turn out especially after trial or test Example: the new drug proved effective • provable adjective • provableness noun • provably adverb • prover noun Usage: The past participle proven, originally the past participle of preve, a Middle English variant of prove that survived in Scotland, has gradually worked its way into standard English over the past three and a half centuries. It seems to have first become established in legal use and to have come only slowly into literary use. Tennyson was one of its earliest frequent users, probably for metrical reasons. It was disapproved by 19th century grammarians, one of whom included it in a list of “words that are not words.” Surveys made some 50 or 60 years ago indicated that proved was about four times as frequent as proven. But our evidence from the last 30 or 35 years shows this no longer to be the case. As a past participle proven is now about as frequent as proved in all contexts. As an attributive adjective Example: proved or proven gas reserves proven is much more common than proved.