These are the meanings of the letters PROTEV when you unscramble them.
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Overt (a.)
Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
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Overt (a.)
Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.
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Prove (v. t.)
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.
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Prove (v. t.)
To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
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Prove (v. t.)
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
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Prove (v. t.)
To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
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Prove (v. t.)
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.
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Prove (v. t.)
To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
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Prove (v. i.)
To make trial; to essay.
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Prove (v. i.)
To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
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Prove (v. i.)
To succeed; to turn out as expected.
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Toper (n.)
One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
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Trope (n.)
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
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Trope (n.)
The word or expression so used.
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Voter (n.)
One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.