proof

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pɹuːf/    美 /pɹuf/|/pɹʉːf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. countable
    — I need proof of your unconditional love. Lend me some dough.
  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. uncountable
    — I'll have some proof.
  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. countable,uncountable
  4. Experience of something. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.
  5. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. obsolete,uncountable
  6. A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination. countable
    — And these men scour the printed proof for error, blunder, and misspelling.
  7. A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets. countable,uncountable
  8. 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
  9. A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5. countable
  10. Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof
  11. 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. US,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To proofread. colloquial,intransitive,transitive
  2. To make resistant, especially to water. transitive
  3. 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. transitive
  4. To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped transitive
    — dough proofing
  5. To test the activeness of (yeast). transitive
    — yeast proofing
形容词 adj.
  1. Used in proving or testing.
    — a proof load; a proof charge
  2. Firm or successful in resisting.
    — proof against harm
  3. Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
    — 60% proof liquor

词形变化

proofs plural more proof comparative most proof superlative proofs present,singular,third-person proofing participle,present proofed participle,past proofed past

词汇关系

下位词
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衍生词
above proof burden of proof counterproof living proof misproof nonproof offer of proof page proof press proof proof by contradiction proof by example proof by exhaustion proof charge proof game proof house proofless prooflike prooflisten proof mark proof of concept proof of life proof of stake proof of work proof plane proof reader proof sheet proof spirit proof system subproof the proof of the pudding is in the eating unproof overproof proofer proofing reproof underproof
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From 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.
词源 2
From 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.
词源 3
From 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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