Dictionary Entry
proof
proof is a 5-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
- 5noun
A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
- 6noun
A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
- 7transitive verb
Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
- 8adjective
Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
- 9adjective
Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
- 10adjective
Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
- 11noun
the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
Synonyms
- 12noun
a trial photographic print from a negative
- 13noun
any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
"if you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it"
- 14noun
(printing) an impression made to check for errors
- 15noun
a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- 16noun
a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- 17verb
make resistant (to harm)
"proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer"
- 18verb
activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
"proof yeast"
- 19verb
read for errors
"I should proofread my manuscripts"
Synonyms
- 20verb
knead to reach proper lightness
"proof dough"
- 21verb
make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- 22adjective
(used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand
"temptation-proof"
"childproof locks"
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