Meaning of Proof

English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Proof

1. 1
   n.

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

2. 2
   n.

   That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.

3. 3
   n.

   The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

4. 4
   n.

   Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

5. 5
   n.

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

6. 6
   n.

   A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.

7. 7
   v. t.

   Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.

8. 8
   a.

   Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.

9. 9
   a.

   Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.

10. 10
    a.

    Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.

11. 11
    n.

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

12. 12
    n.

    That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.

13. 13
    n.

    The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

14. 14
    n.

    Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

15. 15
    n.

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

16. 16
    n.

    A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.

17. 17
    v. t.

    Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.

18. 18
    a.

    Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.

19. 19
    a.

    Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.

20. 20
    a.

    Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.