amerikai:
brit:
1. An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
2. 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.
3. The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
4. Experience of something.
5. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
6. A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
7. 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.
8. A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
9. Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
10. A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (no longer used). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid; thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.
1. To proofread.
2. To make resistant, especially to water.
3. To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
4. To test the activeness of yeast.
1. Used in proving or testing.
a proof load; a proof charge
2. Firm or successful in resisting.
proof against harm
3. (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.