Proof and Model

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

model

(n.) Something intended to serve or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
(n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
(n.) Any copy or resemblance, more or less exact.
(n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
(n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
(v.i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
(v.t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
(a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
(n.) Anything which serves or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue or behavior.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process.
- usage: "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
- synonyms: theoretical account, framework
A type of product.
- usage: "his car was an old model"
A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor.
- usage: "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"
- synonyms: poser
Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale.
- synonyms: simulation
Something to be imitated.
- usage: "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
- synonyms: exemplar, example, good example
Someone worthy of imitation.
- usage: "every child needs a role model"
- synonyms: role model
A representative form or pattern.
- usage: "I profited from his example"
- synonyms: example
A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.
- usage: "she was too fat to be a mannequin"
- synonyms: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model
The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale.
- synonyms: modelling, modeling

Plan or create according to a model or models.
- synonyms: pattern
Form in clay, wax, etc.
- usage: "model a head with clay"
- synonyms: mold, mould
Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.
- usage: "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- synonyms: pose, sit, posture
Display (clothes) as a mannequin.
- usage: "model the latest fashion"
Create a representation or model of.
- usage: "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
- synonyms: simulate
Construct a model of.
- usage: "model an airplane"
- synonyms: mock up

Worthy of imitation.
- usage: "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
- synonyms: exemplary

Equation.