Proof vs. Evidence

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

(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.

Proofnoun

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.

Proofnoun

(obsolete) Experience of something.

Proofnoun

Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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.

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

(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.

Proofadjective

Used in proving or testing.

Proofadjective

Firm or successful in resisting.

Proofadjective

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

Proofverb

To proofread.

Proofverb

(transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.

Proofverb

To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.

Proofverb

To test the activeness of yeast.

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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.

Proofnoun

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.

Proofnoun

Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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

Proofadjective

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

Proofadjective

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

Proofadjective

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

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

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

Proofnoun

(printing) an impression made to check for errors

Proofnoun

a trial photographic print from a negative

Proofnoun

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

Proofverb

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

Proofverb

knead to reach proper lightness;

Proofverb

read for errors;

Proofverb

activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk;

Proofverb

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

Proofadjective

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

Evidencenoun

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

Evidencenoun

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

Evidencenoun

One who bears witness.

Evidencenoun

A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

Evidenceverb

(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Evidencenoun

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

Evidencenoun

One who bears witness.

Evidencenoun

That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; - the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.

Evidenceverb

To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Evidencenoun

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief;

Evidencenoun

an indication that makes something evident;

Evidencenoun

(law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved

Evidenceverb

provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes;

Evidenceverb

provide evidence for;

Evidenceverb

give evidence;

Evidence

Evidence for a proposition is what supports this proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true.