Proof and Commitment

noun

• Any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something.
  • usage: "if you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it"
  • synonyms: cogent evidence
• A formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it.
• A measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume. )
• Printing) an impression made to check for errors.
  • synonyms: test copy, trial impression
• A trial photographic print from a negative.
• The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something.
  • synonyms: validation, substantiation

verb

• Make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset.
• Knead to reach proper lightness.
  • usage: "proof dough"
• Read for errors.
  • usage: "I should proofread my manuscripts"
  • synonyms: proofread
• Activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk.
  • usage: "proof yeast"
• Make resistant (to harm. )
  • usage: "proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer"

adjective

• Used in combination or as a suffix. ( able to withstand)
  • usage: "temptation-proof"; "childproof locks"

• (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
• (n.) Any effort, process or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
• (n.) That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
• (v.t.) Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
• (n.) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
• (a.) Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
• (n.) The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
• (a.) Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load or proof charge.
• (n.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
• (n.) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

noun

• The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.
  • usage: "a man of energy and commitment"
  • synonyms: committedness
• The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action.
  • usage: "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
  • synonyms: allegiance, loyalty, dedication
• An engagement by contract involving financial obligation.
  • usage: "his business commitments took him to London"
• A message that makes a pledge.
  • synonyms: dedication
• The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital. ).
  • synonyms: committal, consignment

• (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
• (n.) The act of committing or putting in charge, keeping or trust; consignment; especially, the act of committing to prison.
• (n.) A doing or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
• (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
• (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

Commitment is a promise by a lender to make a loan on specific terms or conditions to a borrower or builder. A promise by an investor to purchase mortgages from a lender with specific terms or conditions. An agreement, often in writing, between a lender and a borrower to loan money at a future date subject to the completion of paper work or compliance with stated conditions.