Prove vs Come - What's the difference?
prove | come |
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 move from further away to nearer to.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1809-1892)
# To move towards the speaker.
# To move towards the listener.
# To move towards the object that is the of the sentence.
# (label) To move towards the or subject of the main clause.
# To move towards an unstated agent.
(label) To arrive.
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, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
(label) To appear, to manifest itself.
* (1613-1680), (Hudibras)
(label) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
To achieve orgasm; to cum.
To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
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To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
To become, to turn out to be.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
(label) To carry through; to succeed in.
(label) Happen.
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, title= To have a social background.
# To be or have been a resident or native.
# To have been brought up by or employed by.
To germinate.
(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
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(slang) Semen, or female ejaculatory discharge.
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An exclamation to express annoyance.
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An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come , let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
In intransitive terms the difference between prove and come
is that prove is to turn out; to manifest while come is happen.As verbs the difference between prove and come
is that prove is to demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for while come is to move from further away to nearer to.As a noun come is
coming, arrival; approach.As a preposition come is
lang=en|Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.As an interjection come is
an exclamation to express annoyance.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
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*come
English
(wikipedia come)Verb
- Look, who comes yonder?
- I did not come to curse thee.
- when butter does refuse to come [i.e. to form]
- How come you thus estranged?
It's a gas, passage=But out of sight is out of mind. And that
Usage notes
In its general sense, come'' specifically marks motion towards the (whether explicitly stated or not). Its counterpart, usually referring to motion away from or not involving the deictic centre, is ''go''. For example, the sentence "Come to the tree" implies contextually that the speaker is already at the tree - "Go to the tree" often implies that the speaker is elsewhere. Either the speaker or the listener can be the deictic centre - the sentences "I will go to you" and "I will come to you" are both valid, depending on the exact nuances of the context. When there is no clear speaker or listener, the deictic centre is usually the focus of the sentence or the topic of the piece of writing. "Millions of people came''' to America from Europe" would be used in an article about America, but "Millions of people ' went to America from Europe" would be used in an article about Europe. When used with adverbs of location, come'' is usually paired with ''here'' or ''hither''. In interrogatives, ''come'' usually indicates a question about source - "Where are you coming from?" - while ''go indicates a question about destination - "Where are you going?" or "Where are you going to?" A few old texts use comen as the past participle. The phrase "dream come true" is a set phrase; the verb "come" in the sense "become" is archaic outside of that set phrase and the collocation "come about". The collocations “come with” and “come along” mean accompany, used as “Do you want to come with me?” and “Do you want to come along?” In the Midwestern American dialect, “come with” can occur without a following object, as in “Do you want to come with?” In this dialect, “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”. Examples of this may be found in plays by Chicagoan (David Mamet), such as (American Buffalo).Chicago DialectThis objectless use is not permissible in other dialects.
Antonyms
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* cam'st * kingdom comeNoun
(-)- “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
See also
* cumPreposition
(English prepositions)- Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.
- Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
- Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.