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Suggesting vs. Proving — What's the Difference?

Suggesting vs. Proving — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Suggesting and Proving

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Suggesting

To offer for consideration or action; propose
Suggest things for children to do.
Suggested that we take a walk.

Proving

To establish the truth or validity of (something) by the presentation of argument or evidence
The novel proves that the essayist can write in more than one genre. The storm proved him to be wrong in his prediction.

Suggesting

To express or say indirectly
The police officer seemed to be suggesting that the death was not an accident.

Proving

To demonstrate the reality of (something)
He proved his strength by doing 50 pushups.

Suggesting

To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply
A silence that suggested disapproval.
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Proving

To show (oneself) to be what is specified or to have a certain characteristic
Proved herself to be a formidable debater.
Proved herself to be worthy of the task.

Suggesting

To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke
A cloud that suggests a mushroom.
A ringlike symbol suggesting unity.

Proving

To establish by the required amount of evidence
Proved his case in court.

Suggesting

To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand
Such a crime suggests apt punishment.

Proving

To establish the authenticity of (a will).

Suggesting

Present participle of suggest

Proving

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

Suggesting

Suggestion

Proving

To verify (the result of a calculation).

Proving

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

Proving

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

Proving

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

Proving

To be shown to be such; turn out
A theory that proved impractical in practice.
A schedule that proved to be too demanding.

Proving

Present participle of prove

Proving

(homeopathy) Experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested.
A book of provings

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