Alibi vs Proof - What's the difference?
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(legal) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
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An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
To provide an for.
To provide an excuse for.
(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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(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.
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The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
(obsolete) Experience of something.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
(uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
(countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
(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.
(countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb , 5.
(obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
(US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof' was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 '''proof''' means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 ' proof .
Used in proving or testing.
Firm or successful in resisting.
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* 1790 , , Reflections on the Revolution in France'', 1803, ''The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke , Volume 5,
(of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
To proofread.
(lb) To make resistant, especially to water.
To allow to rise (of yeast-containing dough).
To test the activeness of (yeast).
As nouns the difference between alibi and proof
is that alibi is alibi (criminal legal defense where someone tries to prove that he was in another place when the act was committed) while proof is (countable) an effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.As an adjective proof is
used in proving or testing.As a verb proof is
to proofread.alibi
English
Noun
(en noun)- Alibi is different from all of the other defenses . . . it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent.
Derived terms
* Alibi Ike * watertight alibiVerb
(es)See also
* (projectlink) * * (projectlink) * (projectlink) ----proof
English
(wikipedia proof)Noun
''Humorous Poems,
- But the false Fox most kindly played his part,
- For whatsoever mother-wit or art
- Could work he put in proof . No practice sly,
- No counterpoint of cunning policy,
- No reach, no breach, that might him profit bring.
- But he the same did to his purpose wring.
- France I more praise and love; you are, my lord,
- Yourself for horsemanship much famed; and there
- You shall have many proofs to shew your skill.
- A given quantity of the spirits was poured upon a quantity of gunpowder in a dish and set on fire. If at the end of the combustion, the gunpowder continued dry enough, it took fire and exploded; but if it had been wetted by the water in the spirits, the flame of the alcohol went out without setting the powder on fire. This was called the proof .
- I'll have some proof .
- It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception, — "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence."
- Faith, faith is an island in the setting sun
- But proof , yes
- Proof is the bottom line for everyone
- But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.
- (Shakespeare)
Hyponyms
* testimony * evidence * reason * argument * trial * demonstrationDerived terms
* artist's proof * burden of proof * conditional proof * prooflike * proof reader * proof of conceptAdjective
(en adjective)- a proof''' load''; ''a '''proof charge
- proof against harm
- water'''proof'''''; '''''bombproof .
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- And opportunity I here have had / To try thee, sift thee, and confess have found thee / Proof against all temptation as a rock / Of adamant, and, as a centre, firm :
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- This was a good, ?tout proof article of faith, pronounced under an anathema, by the venerable fathers of this philo?ophick ?ynod.
