Proof vs. Prove

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Proof (noun)

    Experience of something.

  • Proof (noun)

    Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

  • Proof (noun)

    A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.

  • 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.

  • Proof (noun)

    A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.

  • Proof (noun)

    Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.

  • 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.

  • Proof (adjective)

    Used in proving or testing.

    “a proof load; a proof charge”

  • Proof (adjective)

    Firm or successful in resisting.

    “proof against harm”

    “waterproof; bombproof.”

  • Proof (adjective)

    Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.

  • Proof (verb)

    To proofread.

  • Proof (verb)

    To make resistant, especially to water.

  • Proof (verb)

    To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.

  • Proof (verb)

    To test the activeness of yeast.

  • 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.”

  • Prove (verb)

    To turn out; to manifest.

    “It proved to be a cold day.”

  • Prove (verb)

    To turn out to be.

    “Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.”

  • 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.”

  • Prove (verb)

    To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

    “to prove a will”

  • Prove (verb)

    To experience

  • Prove (verb)

    To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

    “to prove a page”

  • Prove (noun)

    The process of dough proofing.

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