proof
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- n 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 - n a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- n a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- n (printing) an impression made to check for errors
- n a trial photographic print from a negative
- n the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- v make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- v knead to reach proper lightness
proof dough - v read for errors
I should proofread my manuscripts - v activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
proof yeast - v make resistant (to harm)
proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer - s (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand
temptation-proof
childproof locks
- How long has it been? You have to go all the way back to 1937 to find the last American President who enjoyed what was, in practice, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate .
- Global warming is happening, and the proof is all around us.
- Read "Where the Recession Proof Jobs Are".