PROOF

/pɹʉːf/
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Definition

/pɹʉːf/
noun
  1. An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. Experience of something.
  5. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
verb
  1. To proofread.
  2. To make resistant, especially to water.
  3. To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
  4. To test the activeness of yeast.
adjective
  1. Used in proving or testing.
    “a proof load; a proof charge”
  2. Firm or successful in resisting.
    “proof against harm”
  3. (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.

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