Proof
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To proofread. To make resistant, especially to water.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination. A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof. A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5. Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof. A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge. Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof. Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
Prove
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.To turn out; to manifest.To turn out to be.To (put to the) test, proofTo experienceTo proofread.