Proof vs. Prove
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;
Proveverb
(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
Proveverb
(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
Proveverb
(copulative) To turn out to be.
Proveverb
(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
Proveverb
(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
Proveverb
To experience
Proveverb
To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
Provenoun
(baking) The process of dough proofing.
Proveverb
To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
Proveverb
To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
Proveverb
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Proveverb
To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
Proveverb
To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
Proveverb
To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
Proveverb
To make trial; to essay.
Proveverb
To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
Proveverb
To succeed; to turn out as expected.
Proveverb
be shown or be found to be;
Proveverb
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;
Proveverb
provide evidence for;
Proveverb
prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
Proveverb
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
Proveverb
increase in volume;
Proveverb
cause to puff up with a leaven;
Proveverb
take a trial impression of
Proveverb
obtain probate of;
