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Definition of Proof

1. Adjective. (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand. "Childproof locks"

2. Verb. Make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset.

3. Noun. Any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something. "If you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it"

4. Verb. Knead to reach proper lightness. "Proof dough"

5. Noun. A formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it.

6. Verb. Read for errors. "I should proofread my manuscripts"

7. Noun. A measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume).

8. Verb. Activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk. "Proof yeast"

9. Noun. (printing) an impression made to check for errors.

10. Verb. Make resistant (to harm). "Proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer"

11. Noun. A trial photographic print from a negative.

12. Noun. The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something.

Definition of Proof

1. n. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

2. a. Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.

Definition of Proof

1. Noun. An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. ¹

2. Noun. The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. ¹

3. Noun. The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) Experience of something. ¹

5. Noun. (uncountable obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. ¹

6. Noun. (countable printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination. ¹

7. Noun. (countable logic mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof. ¹

8. Noun. (countable mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, ''transitive verb'', 5. ¹

9. Noun. (obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof. ¹

10. Noun. (American English) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 '''proof''' was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 '''proof''' means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 '''proof'''. ¹

11. Adjective. Used in proving or testing. ¹

12. Adjective. Firm or successful in resisting. ¹

13. Adjective. (context: of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive intransitive colloquial) To proofread. ¹

15. Verb. (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water. ¹

16. Verb. (transitive) To knead, as in bread dough. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Proof

1. to examine for errors [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proof

pronucleuses pronuncial pronunciamento pronunciamentos pronunciation pronunciation-guide pronunciation guide pronunciation guides pronunciation respelling pronunciation respellings

pronunciational pronunciations pronunciative pronunciatory proo proof (current term) proof(p) proof-of-concept proof-read proof-reader

proof-readers proof-reading proof-reads proof by contradiction proof by example proof by exhaustion proof of concept proof of technology proof positive proof reader

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