Proof

Definition

proof /pru:f/ n ၁။ [U] သက္ေသသကၠာယ။ အေထာက္အထား။ သက္ေသခံ။ သက္ေသ။ ask sb for proof of identity/ ownership ❍ provide written/ scientific/ legal proof ❍ We need more proof before we can accuse him of stealing. ❍ The size of the audience was proof of his popularity. ၂။ [C esp pl ] ပံုႏိွပ္(စာ)မူၾကမ္း။ ပ႐ု။ check/ correct/ read the proofs of a book ❍ colour proofs (ie of a book, etc with colour photographs or illustrations). ၃။ [U] အျပင္းဆံုးကို ရာႏႈန္းျပည့္သတ္မွတ္ေသာ အရက္ျပင္းႏႈန္းစံ။ This whisky is 70% proof. ၄။ [U] လက္ေတြ႕စမ္းသပ္မႈ။ မွတ္ေက်ာက္တင္ျခင္း။ Is the claim capable of proof? adj ၁။ ~ against sth ( fml ) (က) ကာကြယ္ေပးႏိုင္စြမ္း [ေသာ]။ Their clothing was not proof against the bitter weather. (ခ) ခံႏိုင္ရည္ရိွ[ေသာ]။ proof against temptation. ၂။ (ခံေသာ၊ ကာေသာ၊ ေက်ာ္လႊား ႏိုင္ေသာ အဓိပၸာယ္ရိွသည့္ ေနာက္ဆက္)။ dishwasher-proof plates ❍ rainproof/ windproof clothing ❍ medicine bottles with childproof caps. See alsoDAMP-PROOF COURSE, BULLETPROOF, FIREPROOF, SOUNDPROOF, WATERPROOF v ( fml ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ မိုးေရခံႏိုင္ေအာင္ အဝတ္ အထည္ကို) စီမံသည္။ ❏ the proof of the pudding (is in the eating) [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေရႊအေၾကာင္း ဖေယာင္းသက္ေသ။

Examples

1. [proof of] : We were unable to establish proof of her innocence.
2. Do you have any proof of identity (=a document such as a passport that proves who you are)?
3. [proof that] : Do you have any proof that this is true?