Proof

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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.

   “I'll have some proof.”

3. isim 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. isim Experience of something.

   “But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.”

5. isim Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
6. isim A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.

   “And these men scour the printed proof for error, blunder, and misspelling.”

7. isim A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
8. isim 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.
9. isim A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
10. isim Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.

    “Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof”

11. isim 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.
12. sıfat Used in proving or testing.

    “a proof load; a proof charge”

13. sıfat Firm or successful in resisting.

    “proof against harm”

14. sıfat Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.

    “60% proof liquor”

15. fiil To proofread.
16. fiil To make resistant, especially to water.
17. fiil To test-fire with a load considerably more powerful than the firearm in question's rated maximum chamber pressure, in order to establish the firearm's ability to withstand pressures well in excess of those expected in service without bursting.
18. fiil To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped

    “dough proofing”

19. fiil To test the activeness of (yeast).

    “yeast proofing”

20. özel isim The 98th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.