Word Finder - proof

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

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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.

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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.

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Experience of something.

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Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

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

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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.

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

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

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A 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.

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To proofread.

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To make resistant, especially to water.

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To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.

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To test the activeness of yeast.

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Used in proving or testing.

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a proof load; a proof charge

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Firm or successful in resisting.

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proof against harm

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

What she saw today was proof that she needed it close by.

But no, it wasn't proof at all.

His silence was proof enough.

I've seen the proof with my own eyes.

Gradually the balloon grew bigger, which was proof that it was settling down upon the Land of the Mangaboos.

It isn't fool proof, but I'm comfortable it's secure.

Her file --two inches thick --was yet more proof that the world that seemed foreign to her really wasn't.

What proof have I that you are not lying?

His heart quickened at the first sign of proof that Lana might be alive.

She felt the thick, long proof of his arousal hard against her belly, but his effort to provide comfort rather than tend his own pleasure made her feel even safer in her killer's arms.

With regard to the first question no satisfactory proof has as yet been given that Saccharomycetes are derivable by culture from any higher form, the recent statements to that effect not having been confirmed.

But of this there is no other proof.

She hesitated then said, "I think you're right, but I can't find proof of it anywhere."

There is no proof that any direct emolument was ever attached to the office, while the expense and trouble entailed by it must often have been very great.

Some writers have considered that it extended a considerable distance farther to the north, but of this there is no proof, and no remains have as yet been found which would support the opinion.

It is quite consistent with the evidence to suppose that a seven-day week was in use in Babylonia, but each item may be explained differently, and a definite proof does not exist.

This enabled David Hilbert to produce a very simple unsymbolic proof of the same theorem.

He gave a proof of his regard for the service of the country by taking his passage home in a small brig rather than withdraw a line of battle ship from the squadron, which his rank entitled him to do, and as other admirals of the time generally did.

The little we know of his statesmanship during the short period he was in power gives proof of political wisdom.

The first is the type of a certain a priori view, then regarded as the safest bulwark against infidelity, of which the main tenets were that the being of God was capable of a priori proof, and that, owing to the finitude of our faculties, the attributes and modes of operation of deity were absolutely incomprehensible.

The second is the typical deist of Locke's school, improved as regards his philosophy, and holding that the only possible proof of God's existence was a posteriori, from design, and that such proof was, on the whole, sufficient.

From the mode of destruction of the city these upper floors were in most cases crushed in and destroyed, and hence it was long believed that the houses for the most part had but one storey; but recent researches have in many cases brought to light incontestable evidence of the existence of an upper floor, and the frequent occurrence of a small staircase is in itself sufficient proof of the fact.

Euclid's manner of proof became the model for his own way of thinking upon all subjects.

Juridical proof is required of the fact of the martyrdom and of its cause, i.e.

On account of the divergence of its style from that of the History of Armenia, Armenian scholars have hesitated to ascribe the Rhetoric to Moses of Khor`ni; but, from what has been said above, this is rather to be regarded as a proof of its authenticity.

It is only fair to say that no real proof was brought that the Socialists had anything to do with either of these crimes, or that either of the men was really a member of the Socialist party; nevertheless, a storm of indignation rose against them.

She knew it was a proof that in the depth of his soul he was glad she was remaining at home and had not gone away.

Demea, who is willing to give up his abstract proof, brings forward the ordinary theological topic, man's consciousness of his own imperfection, misery and dependent condition.

He saw all the mechanical difficulties that had to be overcome in mining; he learned the nature and succession of rocks, the physical properties of minerals, ores and metals; he got a notion of mineral waters; he was an eyewitness of the accidents which befel the miners, and studied the diseases which attacked them; he had proof that positive knowledge of nature was not to be got in schools and universities, but only by going to nature herself, and to those who were constantly engaged with her.

His enemies watched for slips and failures; the physicians maintained that he had no degree, and insisted that he should give proof of his qualifications.

There is a striking proof of Baxter's insight into character in his account of what happened under these circumstances.

When Thiers, however, fell from power in May 1873, and a Royalist was placed at the head of the government in the person of Marshal MacMahon, Gambetta gave proof of his statesmanship by unceasingly urging his friends to a moderate course, and by his tact and parliamentary dexterity, no less than by his eloquence, he was mainly instrumental in the voting of the constitution in February 1875.

There is no positive documentary proof in Mary's own hand that she had knowledge of the intended assassination of Elizabeth, but her circumstances, together with the tenour of her correspondence with Babington, place her complicity beyond all reasonable doubt.

The relation of American democracy to the systems which have preceded it forms the latest proof of these contentions.

As a proof of Elijah's supernatural power, it is stated that the prophet, for some unknown object, ran before the chariot to the entrance of Jezreel, a distance of at least 16 m.

Lucretius is a proof, if any were needed, that Epicureanism is compatible with nobility of soul.

Now all these points, except the proof from Jewish prophecy, are taken up and worked out by Aristides with a frequent use of the actual language of The Preaching of Peter.

There it was - the proof.

This interview was proof.

He knew Sarah would be listening in somewhere, and when he entered the drawing room, he had proof.

Josh was living proof.

Just telephone stuff— nothing public unless there's proof.

To listen to her talk, you'd think he was six feet tall and bullet proof.

After last night, she didn't need any proof.

Invisible to the microscope, but rendered visible by reagents, are glycogen, Mucor, Ascomycetes, yeast, &c. In addition to these cell-contents we have good indirect evidence of the existence of large series of other bodies, such as proteids, carbohydrates, organic acids, alkaloids, enzymes, &c. These must not be confounded with the numerous substances obtained by chemical analysis of masses of the fungus, as there is often no proof of the manner of occurrence of such bodies, though we may conclude with a good show of probability that some of them also exist preformed in the living cell.

He selected the administration of tobaccos, addressing himself especially to chemical researches under the guidance of Gay-Lussac, and gave striking proof of ability in two papers on the combinations of phosphorus with hydrogen and oxygen, published in Annales de Chimie et de Physique (1835 and 1837).

His best prose work is the Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England (London, 1774).

The proof is furnished on the one hand by the geographical and ethnographical nomenclature of a later period tions of MSS.

The steady dislike of the princes was the best proof of the,importance of the cities.

It is not uncommon for the Koran, after a new subject has been entered on, to return gradually or suddenly to the former theme, - a proof that there at least separation is not to be thought of.