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| 1. n. plural of proof. |  |
| 2. n. Samples of the copy and layout of a printed document for review by the author or a proofreader before mass printing. | |
| proof | |
| 1. n. An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. | |
| 2. n. 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; | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Experience of something. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. | |
| 6. n. (printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination. | |
| 7. n. (logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the | |
| 8. n. (mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof. | |
| 10. n. (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 | |
| 11. adj. Used in proving or testing. | |
| a proof load; a proof charge | |
| 12. adj. Firm or successful in resisting. | |
| proof against harm | |
| waterproof; bombproof. | |
| 13. adj. (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread. | |
| 15. v. To make resistant, especially to water. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, cooking) To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, cooking) To test the activeness of yeast. | |
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