Proof and Pattern

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

pattern

A perceptual structure.
- usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- synonyms: form, shape
A customary way of operation or behavior.
- usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
- synonyms: practice
A decorative or artistic work.
- usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
- synonyms: design, figure
Something regarded as a normative example.
- usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
- synonyms: convention, normal, rule, formula
A model considered worthy of imitation.
- usage: "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
Something intended as a guide for making something else.
- usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
- synonyms: blueprint, design
The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.
- usage: "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
- synonyms: traffic pattern, approach pattern
Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.
- synonyms: radiation pattern, radiation diagram

Plan or create according to a model or models.
- synonyms: model
Form a pattern.
- usage: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

(n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(v.t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(v.t.) To make or design (anything) by, from or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pattern is a technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.