Proof

Quick meaning: Proof is a noun meaning (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
2. (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
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. (numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
5. (uncountable) 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.
6. (countable, 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 sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.
7. (obsolete) Experience of something.

Example Sentences

I'll have some proof.

I need proof of your unconditional love. Lend me some dough.

Faith, faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof is the bottom line for everyone

But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.

Word Forms

• proofs
• proofing
• proofed

Synonyms for proof

Depending on context, synonyms include testament, bloom, rehydrate, validation, validating, proofread.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include validation, proofread, impervious, proving, validating, trial.

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