different between figures vs evidence
figures
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??j?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f???z/
- Hyphenation: fig?ures
Noun
figures
- plural of figure
Verb
figures
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of figure
- (by ellipsis) It figures.
Catalan
Noun
figures
- plural of figura
French
Noun
figures f
- plural of figure
Verb
figures
- second-person singular present indicative of figurer
- second-person singular present subjunctive of figurer
Latin
Verb
fig?r?s
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of fig?r?
Portuguese
Verb
figures
- second-person singular present subjunctive of figurar
- second-person singular negative imperative of figurar
Spanish
Verb
figures
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of figurar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of figurar.
figures From the web:
- what figures have at least one vertex
- what figures have rotational symmetry
- what figures are parallelograms
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- what figures are rectangles
- what figures are significant
evidence
English
Etymology
From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
- (US) IPA(key): [??v???ns]
- Hyphenation: ev?i?dence
Noun
evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
- One who bears witness.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:
- He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard
Derived terms
Related terms
- evident
- evidential
Translations
Verb
evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)
- (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
Usage notes
- To be distinguished from evince.
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.
Further reading
- evidence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- evidence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
- Rhymes: -?nts?
Noun
evidence f
- records
- registry, repository
Related terms
- See vize
- eviden?ní
- evidovat
- evidentní
See also
- záznamy
- databáze
- registr
Further reading
- evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Friulian
Noun
evidence f (plural evidencis)
- evidence
Middle French
Noun
evidence f (plural evidences)
- evidence
Descendants
- French: évidence
evidence From the web:
- what evidence supports the big bang theory
- what evidence supports the endosymbiotic theory
- what evidence supports the theory of continental drift
- what evidence supports the law of conservation of energy
- what evidence supports a conservation law
- what evidence supports the big bang
- what evidence best supports the big bang theory
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