Existing vs Proven - What's the difference?
existing | proven |
That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.
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English adjectives ending in -en
English irregular past participles
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As verbs the difference between existing and proven
is that existing is present participle of lang=en while proven is past participle of lang=en.As adjectives the difference between existing and proven
is that existing is that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now while proven is having been proved; having proved its value or truth.existing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Synonyms
* existentAnagrams
*proven
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's a proven fact that morphine is a more effective painkiller than acetaminophen is.
- Mass lexical comparison is not a proven method for demonstrating relationships between languages.