Demonstrate vs. Prove — What's the Difference?

To show clearly and deliberately; manifest

To establish the truth or validity of (something) by the presentation of argument or evidence

To show to be true by reasoning or adducing evidence; prove

To demonstrate the reality of (something)

To present by experiments, examples, or practical application; explain and illustrate

To show (oneself) to be what is specified or to have a certain characteristic

To show the use of (an article) to a prospective buyer

To establish by the required amount of evidence

To give a demonstration

To establish the authenticity of (a will).

To participate in a public display of opinion

To demonstrate the validity of (a hypothesis or proposition).

(transitive) to show how to use (something).

To verify (the result of a calculation).

To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.

To subject (a gun, for instance) to a test.

(intransitive) to participate in or organize a demonstration.

(Printing) To make a sample impression of (type); proof.

(transitive) to show, display, or present; to prove or make evident

(Archaic) To find out or learn (something) through experience.

To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

To be shown to be such; turn out

To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial.

(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

Show or demonstrate something to an interested audience;

(copulative) To turn out to be.

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.

Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes;

(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

March in protest; take part in a demonstration;

To experience.

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

(homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.

(baking) The process of dough proofing.

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.

To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

To make trial; to essay.

To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

To succeed; to turn out as expected.

Be shown or be found to be;

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

Provide evidence for;

Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Increase in volume;

Cause to puff up with a leaven;

Take a trial impression of

Obtain probate of;