Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which proves or tries.
- noun A skilled workman employed to strike off proofs from engraved plates.
- noun In homeopathic medicine, one who submits himself to experimentation in order to determine the therapeutic indications for a drug. See
prove , v. t., 7. - noun In old English law, one who gives state's evidence; an approver or probator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, proves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person, device, or program that performs logical or mathematical
proofs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Palin has prover herself to be a quitter, as well as shallow, greedy and to be as dumb as a bag of hair.
Think Progress » Palin’s talk show debut garners weak reviews, lower-than-expected ratings. 2010
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Writers laying claim to the idea that the Swiftboat was never prover wrong probably do not read much.
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics 2010
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Although he is not by nature a point-prover, it would also be satisfying to show Juventus that the problems he encountered in Turin last season were not necessarily about him, and that perhaps the issue was them.
Roma, Claudio Ranieri and José Mourinho: romance and revenge in Italy 2010
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As far as I am concerned, Sarah Palin is indifferently ignorant, and not worthy of further attention or higher office until she can prover herself more worthy.
Meghan McCain: "Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won’t comment on publicly." Ann Althouse 2009
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The simulations suggested that, if there had been an adequate MPP available, “Pi-Thrower” would have run roughly 100 times faster than any other theorem prover in the world.
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Maybe we can think of story where it turns out that Burt is actually an AI that arose out of a theorem prover.
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Our mutual friend Robert Anton Wilson wrote, "The prover proves what the thinker thinks."
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Re: #90 Jonathan Vos Post, interesting, you developed a parallel prover back in the 70s?
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Quoth she, ‘The manifest signs and visible portents of Allah; and, when the path is patent to thee, thou espiest with thine own eyes both proof and prover.’
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Jonathan Vos Post, interesting, you developed a parallel prover back in the 70s?
ruzuzu commented on the word prover
"2. A skilled workman employed to strike off proofs from engraved plates." --Cent. Dict.
April 22, 2011