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

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

    Synonyms: substantiation, validation

12. noun. a trial photographic print from a negative
13. noun. 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"

14. noun. (printing) an impression made to check for errors
15. noun. a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
16. noun. a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
17. verb. make resistant (to harm)

    "proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer"

18. verb. activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk

    "proof yeast"

19. verb. read for errors

    "I should proofread my manuscripts"

    Synonyms: proofread

20. verb. knead to reach proper lightness

    "proof dough"

21. verb. make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
22. adjective. (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand

    "temptation-proof"

    "childproof locks"

Synonyms

substantiation, validation, proofread

Common word forms

proofs, proofed, proofer, proofful, proofing, proofless, proofness

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