Print vs Proof - What's the difference?
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print
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out'' or ''off : print out, print off.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
* Alexander Pope
To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
* Surrey
* Sir John Beaumont
* Roscommon
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
* Dryden
(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
A visible impression on a surface.
A fingerprint.
A footprint.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
(motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
(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).
In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between print and proof
is that print is (uncountable) the letters forming the text of a document while proof is (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.As adjectives the difference between print and proof
is that print is of, relating to, or writing for printed publications while proof is used in proving or testing.As verbs the difference between print and proof
is that print is to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out'' or ''off : print out, print off while proof is to proofread.As nouns the difference between print and proof
is that print is (uncountable) books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium 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.English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
- The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
- Print your name here and sign below.
- I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print .
- How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
- From the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
- to print calico
- A look will print a thought that never may remove.
- Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print .
- some footsteps printed in the clay
- Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
Derived terms
* printer * printing form * printing pressNoun
(en noun)- Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print .
- TV and the internet haven't killed print .
- Write in print using block letters.
- The print is too small for me to read.
- Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
- Did the police find any prints at the scene?
Antonyms
* (writing without connected letters) cursiveDerived terms
* fine print * fingerprint * footprint * in print * newsprint * out of print * pawprint * printmaking * printout * small print * thumbprintExternal links
* (Print) ----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.
