Word Meaning

proof definition and meaning

n. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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.
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.
n. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
n. A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
n. A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
v. t. Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
a. Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
a. Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
a. Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.

Crossword clues for proof

- a pledge that something will happen or that something is true
- Check (text) for errors
- Confirmation
- Confirmation of strength of spirit
- Demonstration
- Evidence
- Evidence of parking on the roof
- Evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true
- Short professor keeps ring as evidence
- Strength of liquor
- Supporting evidence
- Verification