Meaning of evidence | Babel Free
ˈɛv.ɪ.dənsDefinitions
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- third-person singular present indicative
- Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
- second-person singular imperative
- One who bears witness.
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
Equivalents
Examples
“There is no evidence that anyone was here earlier.”
“We have⟳ enough cold hard evidence in that presentation which will make⟳ a world of pain for our parasitic friends at Antarctica.”
“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.”
“We find⟳ material evidences of magical practices in the European caves of the Palæolithic age[.]”
“Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure⟳, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.”
“The Supreme Court, in an order⟳ that no justice publicly opposed last⟳ week, said the administration needs to “facilitate” Mr. Ábrego García’s release⟳ from Salvadoran custody. There has been no evidence that the Trump administration has been making that effort.”
“For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come⟳ at the end⟳ one of biggest investigations carried out by the force⟳, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder⟳ of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last⟳ year.”
“infamous and perjured evidences”
“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.”
“In the mean⟳ time, Cluffe had arrived. He was a little bit huffed and grand at being nailed as an evidence, upon a few words carelessly, or, if you will, confidentially dropped at his own⟳ mess-table, […]”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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