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Proof (noun)
An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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Proof (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.
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Proof (noun)
The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
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Proof (noun)
Experience of something.
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Proof (noun)
Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
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Proof (noun)
A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
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Proof (noun)
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.
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Proof (noun)
A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
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Proof (noun)
Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
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Proof (noun)
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.
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Proof (adjective)
Used in proving or testing.
“a proof load; a proof charge”
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Proof (adjective)
Firm or successful in resisting.
“proof against harm”
“waterproof; bombproof.”
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Proof (adjective)
Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
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Proof (verb)
To proofread.
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Proof (verb)
To make resistant, especially to water.
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Proof (verb)
To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
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Proof (verb)
To test the activeness of yeast.
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Prove (verb)
To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
“I will prove that my method is more effective than yours.”
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Prove (verb)
To turn out; to manifest.
“It proved to be a cold day.”
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Prove (verb)
To turn out to be.
“Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.”
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Prove (verb)
To put to the test, to make trial of.
“They took the experimental car to the proving-grounds.”
“The exception proves the rule.”
“ux|en|The hypothesis has not been proven to our satisfaction.”
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Prove (verb)
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
“to prove a will”
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Prove (verb)
To experience
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Prove (verb)
To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
“to prove a page”
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Prove (noun)
The process of dough proofing.