Prove vs Raise - What's the difference?
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To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
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, title= To turn out; to manifest.
(copulative) To turn out to be.
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, title= To put to the test, to make trial of.
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
(archaic) To experience
* Spenser
(printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
(proove)
(label) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
# To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
#* Bible, (w) xxxix. 3
# To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.
# (label) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
# (label) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.
# (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
(label) To create, increase or develop.
# To collect.
# To bring up; to grow; to promote.
# To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
# (label) To create; to constitute (a use , or a beneficial interest in property).
# (label) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
#* Bible, (w) xviii. 18.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
(label) To exponentiate, to involute.
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
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To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
(US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
(curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
(poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
As verbs the difference between prove and raise
is that prove is while raise is (label) to cause to rise; to lift or elevate.As a noun raise is
(us) an increase in wages or salary; a rise (uk).prove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) proven, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l), (l).Alternative forms
* prooveVerb
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa”(season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.}}
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove , and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.}}
- to prove a will
- Where she, captived long, great woes did prove .
- to prove a page
Derived terms
* disprovability * disprovable, disprovably * disprove * disproved, disproven * exception that proves the rule * provability * provable * provably * prove out * prover * proving ground * unprovability * unprovable * unprovably * unprove * unproved * unprovenEtymology 2
Simple past form of proove, conjugated in the Germanic strong declension, on the pattern of choose ? chose.Verb
(head)Statistics
*raise
English
Verb
(rais)- I will raise forts against thee.
- I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
- God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Synonyms
* liftDerived terms
* raise Cain * raise fire * raise one's eyebrows * raise someone's consciousness * raise the alarm * raise the roof * raised by wolves * raised in a barnNoun
(en noun)- The boss gave me a raise .
