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Canadian Tire Corp. (finance) and prove (iou)


Canadian Tire Corp. (finance)


Canadian Tire Corp. is one of Canada's largest companies.









prove (iou)



prove verb. . See also PROVED adjective, PROVEN adjective. ME.
[Old French prover (mod. prouver) from Latin probare test, approve, demonstrate, from probus good.]
verb trans. & intrans. with of. Test the genuineness or qualities of, subject to a testing process, (chiefly techn.); Scot. taste. ME.
Proverb: The exception proves the rule.
b. verb trans. Mining. Ascertain the position and extent of a deposit of coal, ore, a well, etc. Also foll. by up. M19.
c. verb trans. Homoeopathy. Give (a drug) to healthy people to ascertain the symptoms it produces. M19.
verb trans. Find out by experience; experience, suffer. arch. ME.
verb trans. & intrans. Endeavour, strive, (to do). ME-M17.
verb trans. Establish or demonstrate the truth or existence of by evidence or argument. Foll. by simple obj., subord. clause, or obj. and compl. ME.
G. K. Chesterton Buck..had proved himself a man of the strongest type. O. Manning She will get a rise as soon as she proves she's worth it. T. Capote To prove that they had not supplied their clients with the minimum protection.
verb intrans. Turn out well; thrive; succeed. ME-L17.
verb intrans. With complement. Be shown or found by experience or trial to be (so and so); turn out to be; emerge incontrovertibly as; arch. become, grow. LME.
M. McCarthy Dogwood, which proved, on closer examination, to have paper flowers. New Scientist It may prove of interest in..banking and finance. J. Gaskell Cook, or her daughter, will prove mines of information. P. Ackroyd In this..he was to prove mistaken. F. Weldon Those benefits..prove to be no use to me at all.
verb trans. Establish the genuineness and validity of; spec. obtain probate of (a will); refl. evince proof of one's abilities or prowess. LME.
Observer These new experimental Drinks have still to prove themselves.
verb trans. Approve of. LME-M16.
verb trans. Typography. Take a proof impression of. L18.
verb trans. Test the correctness of (a calculation). E19.
b. verb intrans. Of a calculation: pass a test of correctness. rare. M19.
verb intrans. Of dough: become aerated by the fermentation of yeast prior to Baking; rise. Of yeast: cause such aeration. M19.
Phrases: fend and prove: see FEND verb 1. not proven Scots Law: a verdict that there is insufficient evidence to establish guilt (having the effect of a verdict of not guilty). prove too much pursue an argument too far; establish a proposition so inclusive as to be unhelpful.
With adverbs in specialized senses: prove out (a) verb phr. trans. establish as correct or workable; test exhaustively; (b) verb phr. intrans. prove to be correct or workable. prove up verb phr. intrans. & trans. (N. Amer.) show that one has fulfilled the legal conditions for taking up (a grant of government land), so that a patent may be issued; (see also sense 1b above).