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To proofread.
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To make resistant, especially to water.
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To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
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To test the activeness of yeast.
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To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
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I will prove that my method is more effective than yours.
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To turn out; to manifest.
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It proved to be a cold day.
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To turn out to be.
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Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.
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To put to the test, to make trial of.
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The exception proves the rule.
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To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
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to prove a will
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To experience.
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To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
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to prove a page
Examples of proved in a Sentence
It is proved by my fine points.
He tried first one plan and then another; but none of them proved anything at all.
Didn't he know that his brutal assault proved nothing?
Mr. Marsh proved that he was on no diet.
Why, only a little while ago people thought it quite impossible to teach the deaf-blind anything; but no sooner was it proved possible than hundreds of kind, sympathetic hearts were fired with the desire to help them, and now we see how many of those poor, unfortunate persons are being taught to see the beauty and reality of life.
Surprising enough, they both proved to be interesting topics.
They proved to be the turning point in her day.
He knows you can pop up anywhere, geographically; you've proved that to him.
The smoke proved to be too much for Adrienne and two other girls, so they decided to walk each other home.
It was I and Fire that lived there; and commonly my housekeeper proved trustworthy.
I knew because he proved to me that I could trust him with my heart and soul - the way you trust your mother and father.
The details proved surprisingly uncomplicated.
Ethel Reagan found none that fit her pattern being proved wrong.
He's a nice young man and I feel would make a far less labor intensive mate than Howie would have proved to be.
At the Cape of Good Hope, after more than 200,000 pointings had been made, the screw-errors were redetermined; the results proved the truth of the above conclusions, viz.
The episode proved how easy it was to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
The article attempted objectivity, documenting several of the cases on which our tips proved fruitful.
He was no follower of their ideas, indeed often opposed to them; but he derived from Bacon an increasing stimulus towards the investigation of certain great problems of history and philosophy, while Grotius proved valuable in his study of philosophic jurisprudence.
In 1857 Pasteur decisively proved that fermentation was a physiological process, for he showed that the yeast which produced fermentation was no dead mass, as assumed by Liebig, but consisted of living organisms capable of growth and multiplication.
These fine jet droppers with a mixture of alcohol and water have proved very effective for balloon observations.
Ill health is proved by i.
Clive's plan of governing through the agency of the native court had proved a failure.
Hastings always maintained that he did not cause the charge to be instituted, and the legality of Nuncomar's trial is thoroughly proved by Sir James Stephen.
But experience soon proved the superiority of the spider web; its perfection of shape, its lightness and elasticity, have led to its universal adoption.
The remedy proposed by Repsold for this proved fault is to cause the whole slide to tilt instead of the microscope only; this should prove a complete remedy.
The method originally used by Huggins, who first conceived and proved the possibility of measuring stellar velocities in the line of sight, was to measure with a filar micrometer the displacement of some well-known line in a stellar spectrum relative to the corresponding line of a terrestrial spectrum.
Selim determined on war with Persia, where the heresy was the prevalent religion, and in order that the Shiites in Turkey should give no trouble during the war, "measures were taken," as the Turkish historian states, which may be explained as the reader desires, and which proved fully efficacious.
Thompson proved a worthy successor to Whewell; the twenty years of his mastership were years of progress, and he himself took an active part in the abolition of tests and the reform of university studies and of the college statutes.
The son and successor of Agesilaus II., reigned 360-338 B.C. During his father's later years he proved himself a brave and capable officer.
All Podébrad's endeavours to establish peace with Rome proved ineffectual, and though the death of Pius II.
Though the rule of Podébrad had proved very successful and Bohemia had under it obtained a degree of prosperity which had been unknown since the time of Charles IV., the Calixtine king had many enemies among the Romanist members of the powerful Bohemian nobility.
For it was proved that the medieval objects were found in such positions as to be necessarily contemporaneous with the foundation of the buildings, and that there was no superposition of periods of any date whatsoever.
The classification into epithelial organs, connective tissues, and the more specialized muscle and nerve, was largely due to him; and he proved the presence of neuroglia in the brain and spinal cord, discovered crystalline haematoidine, and made out the structure of the umbilical cord.
In November 1580 Ivan in a fit of ungovernable fury at some contradiction or reproach, struck his eldest surviving son Ivan, a prince of rare promise, whom he passionately loved, a blow which proved fatal.
As a king he proved ungrateful to his mother, and weak as a ruler.
Properties.--All attempts to make helium enter into stable chemical union have hitherto proved unsuccessful.
The native dynasty (Ming) which supplanted them established their residence at Nan-king ("South Court"), but this proved so inconvenient that Yunglo, the third sovereign of the dynasty, reoccupied Ta-tu, giving it then, for the first time, the name of Pe-king ("North Court").
The scions of the house of Lusignan proved themselves the most sincere of crusaders.
The Albanian leaders, however, soon displayed a spirit of independence, which proved embarrassing to Turkish diplomacy and caused alarm at Constantinople; their forces came into conflict with a Turkish army under Dervish Pasha near Dulcigno (November 1880), and eventually the league was suppressed.
The theological views of these teachers proved quite incompatible with the Arminianism of Wesley, and a definite breach between them and him took place in 1770.
These rules were published in the Canonis Descriptio (1614), and Napier has there given a figure, and indicated.a method, by means of which they may be proved directly.
Finding their comrades did not return, Irala and his companions determined to descend the river, and on their downward journey opposite the mouth of the river Pilcomayo, finding a suitable site for colonizing, they founded (1536) what proved to be the first permanent Spanish settlement in the interior of South America, the future city of Asuncion (15th August 1536).
But the economic and financial situation was one of almost hopeless embarrassment and confusion, and Pellegrini proved himself incapable of grappling with it.
He proved a hard-working progressive president, who did much for the development of communications and the opening up of the interior of the country.
Under it the cost of the necessary land was to be found as to one-third by the state and as to the residue locally, but this arrangement proved unworkable and was abandoned in 1845, when it was settled that the state should provide the land and construct the earthworks and stations, the various companies which obtained concessions being left to make the permanent way, provide rolling stock and work the lines for certain periods.
This measure proved successful and the projected lines were completed.
The Turks charged through the intervals between the galeasses, which proved to be of no value.
Both entered the country, but George William proved himself the stronger and occupied Ratzeburg; having paid a substantial sum of money to the elector, he was recognized by the inhabitants as their duke.
Albertus Magnus argued that the soul is immortal, as ex se ipsa causa, and as independent of the body; Pietro Pomponazzi maintained that the soul's immortality could be neither proved nor disproved by any natural reasons.
Its congeners even then lived in England, as is proved by the fact that their relics have been found in the Stonesfield oolitic rocks, the deposition of which is separated from that which gave rise to the Paris Tertiary strata by an abyss of past time which we cannot venture to express even in thousands of years.