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1.nounAn effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
2.nounThe 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.
3.nounThe 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.
4.nounExperience of something.
5.nounFirmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
6.nounA proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
7.nounA 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.
8.nounA process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
9.nounArmour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
10.nounA measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (no longer used). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid; thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.
11.verbTo proofread.
12.verbTo make resistant, especially to water.
13.verbTo allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
14.verbTo test the activeness of yeast.
15.adjectiveUsed in proving or testing."a proof load; a proof charge"
16.adjectiveFirm or successful in resisting."proof against harm"
17.adjective(of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.