Prof vs. Proof

(informal) professor

(informal) profit

someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

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

(uncountable) 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.

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.

(obsolete) Experience of something.

Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

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

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.

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

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

(US) 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.

Used in proving or testing.

Example: ‘a proof load; a proof charge’;

Firm or successful in resisting.

Example: ‘proof against harm’; ‘waterproof; bombproof.’;

(of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.

To proofread.

(transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.

To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.

To test the activeness of yeast.

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

Example: ‘For whatsoever mother wit or artCould work, he put in proof.’; ‘You shall have many proofs to show your skill.’; ‘Formerly, a very rude mode of ascertaining the strength of spirits was practiced, called the proof.’;

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

Example: ‘I'll have some proof.’; ‘It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases.’;

The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

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

A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.

Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.

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

Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.

Example: ‘I . . . have found theeProof against all temptation.’; ‘This was a good, stout proof article of faith.’;

Being of a certain standard as to strength; - said of alcoholic liquors.

any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something;

Example: ‘if you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it’;

a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it

a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)

(printing) an impression made to check for errors

a trial photographic print from a negative

the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset

knead to reach proper lightness;

Example: ‘proof dough’;

read for errors;

Example: ‘I should proofread my manuscripts’;

activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk;

Example: ‘proof yeast’;

make resistant to water, sound, errors, etc.;

Example: ‘proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer’;

(used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand;

Example: ‘temptation-proof’; ‘childproof locks’;