PROVE vs TRY: NOUN
- An obsolete form of proof.
- A sieve; riddle; screen.
- In foot-ball, in the Rugby game, the right to carry the ball in front of the goal and try to kick a goal. When goals are equal, the game is decided by the majority of tries.
- The act of trying; a trial; experiment; effort.
- In Rugby, an act of advancing the ball past the opponent's goal line and grounding it there for a score of three points.
- An attempt; an effort.
- Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
PROVE vs TRY: VERB
- To experience
- To put to the test, to make trial of.
- To turn out to be.
- To turn out; to manifest.
- To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
- Simple past of proove.
- Cause to puff up with a leaven
- Provide evidence for
- Increase in volume
- Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- Take a trial impression of
- Obtain probate of
- Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
- Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- Be shown or be found to be
- Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
- Take a sample of
- Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- Give pain or trouble to
- Test the limits of
- Melt (fat, lard, etc.) in order to separate out impurities
- Make an effort or attempt
PROVE vs TRY: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To succeed; to turn out as expected.
- To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be
- To make trial; to essay.
- To be shown to be such; turn out.
- To find out or learn (something) through experience.
- To make a sample impression of (type); proof.
- To subject (a gun, for instance) to a test.
- To verify (the result of a calculation).
- To demonstrate the validity of (a hypothesis or proposition).
- To establish the authenticity of (a will).
- To establish by the required amount of evidence.
- To show (oneself) to be what is specified or to have a certain characteristic.
- To demonstrate the reality of (something).
- To establish the truth or validity of (something) by the presentation of argument or evidence.
- To do; to fare; !
- To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt.
- To make an effort; strive.
- To melt (lard, for example) to separate out impurities; render.
- To subject to great strain or hardship; tax.
- To put (an accused person) on trial.
- To conduct the trial of (a legal claim).
- To make an effort to open (a closed door or window).
- To taste, sample, or otherwise test in order to determine strength, effect, worth, or desirability.
- To make an effort to do or accomplish (something); attempt.
PROVE vs TRY: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
- 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.
- To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
- To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
- To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
- To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
- To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out.
PROVE vs TRY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Prove formally
- To thrive; be with young: generally said of cattle.
- To succeed; turn out well.
- Hence To become; be.
- To be found or ascertained to be by experience or trial; be ascertained or shown by the event or something subsequent; turn out to be: as, the report proves to be true; to prove useful or wholesome; to prove faithful or treacherous.
- To make trial; essay.
- Synonyms To verify, justify, confirm, substantiate, make good, manifest.
- In printing, to take a proof of.
- In arithmetic, to ascertain or demonstrate the correctness of (an operation or result) by a calculation in the nature of a check: as, to prove a sum.
- To have personal experience of; experience; enjoy or suffer.
- To establish the authenticity or validity of; obtain probate of: as, to prove a will. See probate.
- To render certain; put out of doubt (as a proposition) by adducing evidence and argumentation; show; demonstrate.
- To try by experiment, or by a test or standard; test; make trial of; put to the test: as, to prove the strength of gunpowder; to prove the contents of a vessel by comparing it with a standard measure.
- In homeopathic practice, to test the therapeutic action of (a drug) by observing the symptoms following its administration in appreciable amounts to persons in health.
- Synonyms To seek, essay, strive.
- Hence— To transude, or ooze out, as sweat: as, the perspiration is trying out of him.
- In angling, to fish again over a pool or stream where the fish have refused to bite before, as with a different cast of flies, from another direction with regard to the wind or sun, etc.: also used transitively: as, to try back the water.
- Nautical, to lie to in a gale under storm-sails so as to keep a ship's bow to the sea.
- To find or show what a person or a thing is; prove by experience; make or hold a trial.
- To exert strength; make an effort; endeavor; attempt: as, to try for a situation.
- To attempt; undertake.
- In joinery, to dress with a trying-plane. See trying-plane.
- To invite; escort.
- To incite to wrong; tempt; solicit.
- To strain: as, to try the eyes.
- To bear hardly upon; subject to trials or suffering; afflict: as, the family has been sorely tried.
- To bring to a decision; determine; settle; hence, to decide by combat.
- To examine judicially; bring or set before a court with evidence or argument, or both, for a final judicial determination; submit to the examination and decision or sentence of a judicial tribunal: as, to try a case; to try a prisoner.
- To undertake; attempt; essay.
- To experience; have knowledge of by experience.
- To endeavor experimentally to find out.
- To use, apply, or practise tentatively; experiment with: as, to try a new remedy; also, to experiment upon; treat tentatively.
- To put to the test or proof; subject to experimental treatment, comparison with a standard, or the like, in order to determine the truth, accuracy, power, strength, speed, fitness, or other quality of; test; prove: as, to try weights and measures; to try a new invention; to try conclusions; to try one's patience, or one's luck.
- To separate or reduce by boiling or steaming; render: generally with out: as, to try out lard or blubber.
- To separate (metal) from the ore or dross by melting; refine; assay.
- To ascertain by sifting or examination.
- Hence— To select; cull; pick out.
- To separate, as what is good from what is bad; separate by sifting; sift.
- (idiom) (try (one's) fortune) To make an effort or take a risk to be successful, especially as a newcomer.
- (idiom) (try (one's) hand) To attempt to do something for the first time.
PROVE vs TRY: RELATED WORDS
- Essay, Turn out, Try out, Rise, Leaven, Shew, Try, Raise, Testify, Examine, Test, Show, Evidence, Establish, Demonstrate
- Try out, Sample, Stress, Render, Judge, Adjudicate, Hear, Test, Taste, Prove, Endeavor, Examine, Effort, Seek, Attempt
PROVE vs TRY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Disprove, Bear witness, Essay, Turn out, Rise, Shew, Try, Raise, Testify, Examine, Test, Show, Evidence, Establish, Demonstrate
- Assay, Strain, Sample, Stress, Render, Judge, Adjudicate, Hear, Test, Taste, Prove, Endeavor, Examine, Effort, Seek
PROVE vs TRY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- They too had come with something to prove.
- Remember, specials skills are typically easier to prove.
- We have the stats to prove our success.
- IDPs must have documentation to prove their identities.
- Find ways to prove it, shift your focus to finding ways to prove it.
- Committing the error of trying to get someone else to prove you are wrong, when it is your responsibility to prove you are correct.
- Think about the law and what you can prove and what you yet need to prove.
- Explain why blood type data cannot prove who the father of a baby E, and can only prove who the father is not.
- Main applicant must prove that they have enough funds to make the required investment, and prove the legal source of these funds.
- We, too sanguine enthusiasm would a plan eventually prove all the then, but prove an ultimate cure in the future.
- And when did they try to kill Quetzalcoatl.
- Try these problems by yourself before pressing play!
- Look this over, I want to try something.
- Try to interest thepatient in a different activity.
- Try entering a name, location, or different words.
- Anyone try to sign up with Selectel recently?
- You can try to get teaching experience, first try getting one year of teaching experience.
- Try to disable UAC or any native firewall or security solution installed on the server and give a try.
- All I can do is try to cut out temptations and try to live a life that pleases Jesus.
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PROVE vs TRY: QUESTIONS
- Did Helfgott prove the ternary Goldbach conjecture?
- Can Presuppositionalists prove the existence of God?
- Does HPV in monogamous relationships prove unfaithful?
- Does apologetics prove the existence of Christianity?
- How does magnetic reversal prove seafloor spreading?
- Does QR code prove ancient extraterrestrial contact?
- What does saltedsal prove about isosceles triangles?
- Does circumstantial evidence prove guilt or innocence?
- What does the Crown have to prove to prove indecent assault?
- How does salt's efforts to prove her innocence serve to prove?
- Did Mamata Banerjee try making Momos in Darjeeling?
- Did Charles Dickens try to institutionalize his wife?
- Did the surrealists ever try to simulate psychosis?
- Should college athletes try to land endorsement deals?
- How can Congress try to neutralize new legislation?
- Are your free photosynthesis worksheets worth a try?
- Do pharmaceutical companies try to influence doctors?
- Where can I rent or try or try an electric wheelchair?
- Can a TRY CATCH statement have other nested try catch statements?
- What would make an extra-point try 48-yard try in college football?