Proof and Declaration

proof

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

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"

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

declaration

A statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written. )
Law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction. (
- usage: "his declaration of innocence"
A statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties.
Contract bridge. ( the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make)
- synonyms: contract
A formal public statement.
- usage: "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence"
- synonyms: announcement, proclamation, annunciation
A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.
- synonyms: resolution, resolve

(n.) The act of declaring or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
(n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
(n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count or counts. See Count, n., 3.
(n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Declaration is the Board of Directors motion to authorize dividend payments.