proof
Forms
- Plural
- proofs
- Comparative
- more proof
- Superlative
- most proof
- present (v1)
- proof
- past (v2)
- proofed
- past participle (v3)
- proofed
- present participle
- proofing
- 3rd person singular
- proofs
Definitions
1.An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- I need proof of your unconditional love. Lend me some dough.
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.A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
- And these men scour the printed proof for error, blunder, and misspelling.
1.Used in proving or testing.
2.Firm or successful in resisting.
3.Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
1.To make resistant, especially to water.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2436
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English proof
From Old French prove
From Late Latin proba (“a proof”)
From Latin probō (“to prove”); see prove; compare also the doublet probe.