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Proof

noun
1.
Any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something.  Synonym: cogent evidence.
2.
A formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it.
3.
A measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume).
4.
(printing) an impression made to check for errors.  Synonyms: test copy, trial impression.
5.
A trial photographic print from a negative.
6.
The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something.  Synonyms: substantiation, validation.
verb
1.
Make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset.
2.
Knead to reach proper lightness.
3.
Read for errors.  Synonym: proofread.
4.
Activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk.
5.
Make resistant (to harm).
adjective
1.
(used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand.  "Childproof locks"



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"Proof" Quotes from Famous Books



... sure. Anyway I'm going to do what I can to save the place. As for these papers of Schenk's, I'm going to hand them over to the British consul. They'll be useful, I don't doubt, as one more proof of ...
— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill
... comprehensiveness and suppleness is employed, that no experimental law is found which cannot be understood mechanically, and no fact of observation which shows an error in the mechanical explanation—a sure proof that this mode of explanation has ...
— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet
... surroundings. Local names of Old French origin are usually taken from the provinces and larger towns which had a meaning for English ears. I have given examples of such in chapter xi. Of course it is easy to take a detailed map of Northern France and say, without offering any proof, that "Avery (Chapter VIII) is from Evreux, Belcher (Chapter XXI) from Bellecourt, Custance (Chapter X) from Coutances," and so on. But any serious student knows this to be idiotic nonsense. The fact that, except in the small minority composed of the senior branches of the noblest houses, the ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... said that the purple year is not purpler at any point on the southernmost shores of England than it is at Llandudno. In proof of the mildness of its winter climate, the presence of many sorts of tender evergreens is alleged, and the persistence of flowers in blooming from Christmas to Easter. But those who have known the deceitful habits of flowers on the Riviera, where they bloom in ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells
... mutters at last; "it builds the churches an' the schoolhouses an' the homes; an' it fills the jails and the insane asylums an' hell itself. It drives brother to murder brother, an' neither love nor friendship is proof against its curse. It starves those who scorn it, while those who pay out their souls for it find themselves sinking, sinking, sinking in its hideous quicksand until at last it closes above their mad screams. God! if I only had my life ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason


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