proof
An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truthAn effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
» Do you have proof of that?
У тебе є докази цього?
Meaning
11 senses(countable)An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
I need proof of your unconditional love. Lend me some dough.
Beweis
доказа́тельствоdokazátelʹstvo, пруфpruf
до́казdókaz, до́відdóvid
the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
(uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable)A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
Korrekturabzug, Druckfahne
корректу́раkorrektúra
(countable, uncountable)A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
polierte Platte
(countable)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.
(countable)A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
Beweis
(US, countable, uncountable)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, perfectly pure absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Experience of something.
(obsolete, uncountable)Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
Examples
325 sentencesDo you have proof of that?
У тебе є докази цього? — deniko
There's no proof Tom did that.
Немає доказів того, що це зробив Том. — deniko
deEs gibt keinen Beweis, daß Tom es war. — Waldelfe
There's no proof that Tom did that.
Немає доказів того, що це зробив Том. — deniko
deEs gibt keinen Beweis, daß Tom es war. — Waldelfe
There isn't any proof Tom did that.
Немає жодних доказів, що це зробив Том. — deniko
There isn't any proof that Tom did that.
Немає жодних доказів, що це зробив Том. — deniko
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English proof, from Old French prove, from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), fromFrom Middle English proof, from Old French prove, from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from Latin probō (“to prove”); see prove; compare also the doublet probe.
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Forms
plural: proofsSynonyms
7 synonyms- any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something:cogent evidence
- (printing) an impression made to check for errors:test copytrial impression
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something:validationsubstantiation
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
23 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
10 patterns- bullet proof vest
- have any proof
- a bullet proof
- proof vest
- bullet proof
- any proof
- no proof
- have no proof
- have proof that
- wanted proof