proof

/pɹʉːf/ · noun

Meaning

An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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.
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.
Experience of something.
Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
To proofread.
To make resistant, especially to water.
To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
To test the activeness of yeast.
Used in proving or testing.
Firm or successful in resisting.
(of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.

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