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noun
- A tangible proof or tribute.
- One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament.
- (law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).
- A credo, expression of conviction.
- strong evidence for something
- a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- a profession of belief
verb
noun
- Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
- something that serves as evidence
- An account of first-hand experience.
- (law) Statements made by a witness in court.
- (religion) In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.
- a solemn statement made under oath
- an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact
verb
- To provide evidence or proof.
- To call on (someone) to be a witness to something.
- To cite or rely on (an authority, a written work, etc.) in support of one's actions or opinions.
- To back, confirm, or support (someone or something) with credible evidence or proof.
- To bear witness or testify; to guarantee or sponsor.
- Followed by over: of a vouchee (a person summoned to court to establish a warranty of title): to summon (someone) to court in their place.
- To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
- In full vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty: to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land.
- To bear witness or testify to the nature or qualities (of someone or something).
- To express confidence in or take responsibility for (the correctness or truth of) something.
- give supporting evidence
- summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title
- give surety or assume responsibility
- give personal assurance; guarantee
noun
- (figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.
- (UK) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
- (figuratively) A clump or portion of something.
- A selection of such samples bound together.
- A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
- a sample piece of cloth
verb
adj
- Affording proof; demonstrative.
- (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
- of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
noun
- something that serves as evidence
- something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable
- something given or done as an expression of esteem
- A statement, especially one given under oath; testimony
- A tribute given in appreciation of someone's service etc.
- (soccer) A match played in tribute to a particular player (who sometimes receives a proportion of the gate money).
- A written recommendation of someone's worth or character
adj
noun
- the evidence by which something is attested
- the action of bearing witness
- (business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business records of an enterprise, public agency, or other organization.
- A confirmation or authentication.
- (linguistics, of a language, word, word form, or word meaning) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
- A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- give testimony in a court of law
- authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity
- establish or verify the usage of
- (transitive) To certify by signature or oath.
- (transitive) To certify in an official capacity.
- (transitive) To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
- (transitive) To put under oath.
- (ambitransitive) To supply or be evidence of.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- declare legally insane
- guarantee payment on; of checks
- authorize officially
- guarantee as meeting a certain standard
- (transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
- (transitive) To attest to (a fact) as the truth.
- (transitive, law) To authenticate or verify in writing.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
- (transitive) To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
- (intransitive) To participate in or organize a demonstration.
- (transitive) To show how to use (something).
verb
noun
- your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
- (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
- an indication that makes something evident
- One who bears witness.
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- reveal its presence or make an appearance
- record in a ship's manifest
- (intransitive) To become manifest; to be revealed.
- (transitive) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
- (transitive) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
- (transitive, originally New Thought, now also slang) To will something to exist.
adj
noun
verb
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
- To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- show a certain characteristic when tested
- achieve a certain score or rating on a test
- undergo a test
- determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- examine someone's knowledge of something
noun
- (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.
- (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
- (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
- A challenge, trial.
- A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- trying something to find out about it
- a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
adj
noun
noun
- The act of validating something.
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification.
- The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions or perspective.
- (US) The process of identifying a new prisoner's gang affiliation.
verb
- (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
- (massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.
- (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
- clarify by giving an example of
noun
- (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
- A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
- One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
- An occasion; an order of occurrence.
- (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
- (Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
- (computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
- an occurrence of something
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group
noun
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- (printing) an impression made to check for errors
- a trial photographic print from a negative
- any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
- (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- (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.
- 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, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
- (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
- (numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
- (countable, logic, mathematics) 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.
- (US) 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.
adj
verb
- knead to reach proper lightness
- make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- make resistant (to harm)
- activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
- read for errors
- (transitive, firearms) 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, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.
- (transitive, baking) To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped
- (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.
- (transitive, baking) To test the activeness of (yeast).
noun
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat
- any large organization
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
- The number of staff required to run a department or organisation (often used in the context of healthcare and other public services).
- (Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.
- The ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo.
- That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
- The act or process of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
- The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.
verb
- prove superior
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- be valid, applicable, or true
- use persuasion successfully
- continue to exist
- (intransitive) To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
- (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
- (intransitive, often with upon or on) To succeed in persuading or inducing.
- (intransitive) To triumph; to be victorious.
verb
- prove superior
- to express great joy
- dwell on with satisfaction
- be ecstatic with joy
- To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
- To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
- To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
- To be prosperous; to flourish.
- To play a trump in a card game.
noun
- the exultation of victory
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- (historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
- A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
- A state of joy or exultation at success.
- A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.
- A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
- A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
- A card game, also called trump.
adv
adj
intj
- (UK, informal) Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello.
- Used to express exasperation or frustration, often reduplicated or with already.
- Used as a general lead-in or beginning.
- Used to fill space or pauses.
- Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
- Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement.
adv
adj
intj
verb
- admit to testing or proof
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- adjust the spaces between words
- (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (transitive) To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
verb
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- (transitive) To justify by providing evidence.
- maintain, uphold, or defend
- clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof
- (transitive) To be proven reasonable, correct, or justified.
- (transitive) To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
- (transitive) To provide justification for.
- (transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
- (transitive) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
noun
adj
- (of an argument) Convincing.
- (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.
- (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
- Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
- Capable of withstanding great physical force.
- (loosely) Possessing power, might, or strength.
- (military) Not easily subdued or taken.
- (slang, US) Impressive, good.
- Determined; unyielding.
- Highly stimulating to the senses.
- Having a specified number of people or units.
- (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
- Having wealth or resources.
- (of a disease or symptom) Severe; very bad or intense.
- Capable of producing great physical force.
- (mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
- having strength or power greater than average or expected
- strong and sure
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection
- having or wielding force or authority
- freshly made or left
- not faint or feeble
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
adv
noun
- an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
- one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
- A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- (logic) A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- The independent variable of a function.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- a document showing credits and debits
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
- A declaration or remark.
adj
verb
noun
- A tangible proof or tribute.
- One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament.
- (law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).
- A credo, expression of conviction.
- strong evidence for something
- a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- a profession of belief
verb
noun
- Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
- something that serves as evidence
- An account of first-hand experience.
- (law) Statements made by a witness in court.
- (religion) In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.
- a solemn statement made under oath
- an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact
noun
- (figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.
- (UK) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
- (figuratively) A clump or portion of something.
- A selection of such samples bound together.
- A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
- a sample piece of cloth
verb
noun
- something that serves as evidence
- something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable
- something given or done as an expression of esteem
- A statement, especially one given under oath; testimony
- A tribute given in appreciation of someone's service etc.
- (soccer) A match played in tribute to a particular player (who sometimes receives a proportion of the gate money).
- A written recommendation of someone's worth or character
adj
noun
- the evidence by which something is attested
- the action of bearing witness
- (business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business records of an enterprise, public agency, or other organization.
- A confirmation or authentication.
- (linguistics, of a language, word, word form, or word meaning) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
- A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.
noun
- The act of validating something.
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification.
- The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions or perspective.
- (US) The process of identifying a new prisoner's gang affiliation.
noun
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- (printing) an impression made to check for errors
- a trial photographic print from a negative
- any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
- (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- (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.
- 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, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
- (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
- (numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
- (countable, logic, mathematics) 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.
- (US) 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.
adj
verb
- knead to reach proper lightness
- make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- make resistant (to harm)
- activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
- read for errors
- (transitive, firearms) 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, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.
- (transitive, baking) To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped
- (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.
- (transitive, baking) To test the activeness of (yeast).
noun
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat
- any large organization
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
- The number of staff required to run a department or organisation (often used in the context of healthcare and other public services).
- (Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.
- The ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo.
- That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
- The act or process of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
- The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.
noun
noun
- an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
- one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
- A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- (logic) A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- The independent variable of a function.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- a document showing credits and debits
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
- A declaration or remark.
adj
verb
verb
- To provide evidence or proof.
- To call on (someone) to be a witness to something.
- To cite or rely on (an authority, a written work, etc.) in support of one's actions or opinions.
- To back, confirm, or support (someone or something) with credible evidence or proof.
- To bear witness or testify; to guarantee or sponsor.
- Followed by over: of a vouchee (a person summoned to court to establish a warranty of title): to summon (someone) to court in their place.
- To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
- In full vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty: to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land.
- To bear witness or testify to the nature or qualities (of someone or something).
- To express confidence in or take responsibility for (the correctness or truth of) something.
- give supporting evidence
- summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title
- give surety or assume responsibility
- give personal assurance; guarantee
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- give testimony in a court of law
- authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity
- establish or verify the usage of
- (transitive) To certify by signature or oath.
- (transitive) To certify in an official capacity.
- (transitive) To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
- (transitive) To put under oath.
- (ambitransitive) To supply or be evidence of.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- declare legally insane
- guarantee payment on; of checks
- authorize officially
- guarantee as meeting a certain standard
- (transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
- (transitive) To attest to (a fact) as the truth.
- (transitive, law) To authenticate or verify in writing.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
- (transitive) To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
- (intransitive) To participate in or organize a demonstration.
- (transitive) To show how to use (something).
verb
noun
- your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
- (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
- an indication that makes something evident
- One who bears witness.
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- reveal its presence or make an appearance
- record in a ship's manifest
- (intransitive) To become manifest; to be revealed.
- (transitive) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
- (transitive) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
- (transitive, originally New Thought, now also slang) To will something to exist.
adj
noun
verb
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
- To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- show a certain characteristic when tested
- achieve a certain score or rating on a test
- undergo a test
- determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- examine someone's knowledge of something
noun
- (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.
- (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
- (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
- A challenge, trial.
- A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- trying something to find out about it
- a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
verb
- (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
- (massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.
- (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
- clarify by giving an example of
noun
- (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
- A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
- One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
- An occasion; an order of occurrence.
- (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
- (Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
- (computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
- an occurrence of something
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group
verb
- prove superior
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- be valid, applicable, or true
- use persuasion successfully
- continue to exist
- (intransitive) To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
- (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
- (intransitive, often with upon or on) To succeed in persuading or inducing.
- (intransitive) To triumph; to be victorious.
verb
- prove superior
- to express great joy
- dwell on with satisfaction
- be ecstatic with joy
- To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
- To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
- To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
- To be prosperous; to flourish.
- To play a trump in a card game.
noun
- the exultation of victory
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- (historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
- A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
- A state of joy or exultation at success.
- A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.
- A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
- A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
- A card game, also called trump.
verb
- admit to testing or proof
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- adjust the spaces between words
- (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (transitive) To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
verb
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- (transitive) To justify by providing evidence.
- maintain, uphold, or defend
- clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof
- (transitive) To be proven reasonable, correct, or justified.
- (transitive) To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
- (transitive) To provide justification for.
- (transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
- (transitive) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
adv
adj
intj
- (UK, informal) Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello.
- Used to express exasperation or frustration, often reduplicated or with already.
- Used as a general lead-in or beginning.
- Used to fill space or pauses.
- Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
- Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement.
adv
adj
intj
adj
- Affording proof; demonstrative.
- (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
- of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
adj
noun
adj
- (of an argument) Convincing.
- (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.
- (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
- Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
- Capable of withstanding great physical force.
- (loosely) Possessing power, might, or strength.
- (military) Not easily subdued or taken.
- (slang, US) Impressive, good.
- Determined; unyielding.
- Highly stimulating to the senses.
- Having a specified number of people or units.
- (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
- Having wealth or resources.
- (of a disease or symptom) Severe; very bad or intense.
- Capable of producing great physical force.
- (mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
- having strength or power greater than average or expected
- strong and sure
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection
- having or wielding force or authority
- freshly made or left
- not faint or feeble
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
adv
noun
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- (printing) an impression made to check for errors
- a trial photographic print from a negative
- any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
- (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- (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.
- 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, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
- (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
- (numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
- (countable, logic, mathematics) 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.
- (US) 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.
adj
verb
- knead to reach proper lightness
- make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- make resistant (to harm)
- activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
- read for errors
- (transitive, firearms) 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, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.
- (transitive, baking) To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped
- (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.
- (transitive, baking) To test the activeness of (yeast).