What's the difference between proof and provable?

Proof


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
  • (n.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
  • (n.) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
  • (v. t.) Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
  • (a.) Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
  • (a.) Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
  • (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (2) Immunohistochemical insulin proofs were positive in the peritoneum over a period of 3 months and in the liver up to one year after implantation.
  • (3) Although histologic proof of regression is not available, this experience suggests a more favorable prognosis than previously thought possible.
  • (4) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (5) The appearance of plasma cells suggests local maturation of B cells and represents a morphologic proof of local production of immunoglobulins.
  • (6) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (7) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
  • (8) At least Depay departed having had a shot on target, something his manager will probably offer as proof United are improving.
  • (9) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
  • (10) The data are presented in proof of the existence of different as well as common pathways for virus inhibiting effects of different preparations.
  • (11) Proof of the eye's potent antimicrobial environment was demonstrated.
  • (12) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
  • (13) These case histories, and very substantial background proof of efficacy and safety, justify treating with CoQ10 patients in failure awaiting transplantation.
  • (14) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
  • (15) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
  • (16) Proof stress, ultimate tensile strength, elongation, and plastic stiffness have been measured and results compared by use of analyses of variance.
  • (17) Jonathan's party and the biggest opposition coalition have traded accusations about who is sponsoring and arming Boko Haram, but none have provided any proof.
  • (18) Many drugs have been proposed although the documentary proof of their efficacy varies.
  • (19) Fielding said: "He [Stewart] mentioned that on the day before the execution, when Allen was visited by his wife for the last time, they were separated by a piece of what was supposed to be bullet-proofed glass.
  • (20) He compared the situation to insider trading or corruption, in which there may not be direct proof of a criminal quid pro quo taking place, but where there is a pattern of behaviour that warrants attention.

Provable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being proved; demonstrable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She also called on companies to be required to advertise all jobs as potential job shares, or as part-time roles, unless there was a provable requirement for the job to be full time.
  • (2) In the coprofiltrates of artificially fed healthy newborns and sick prematures no IgA is provable, within the first two weeks of age.
  • (3) An enteric resorption of the pentose is provable already 6 hours after the operation, with their utter normalization in the next 36 hours.
  • (4) Such reactions as an increase of the S-fraction were provable in the thymus cells on the 3rd and 7th day.
  • (5) Enddiastolic flow reductions, based on an increased placental resistance, are provable relatively early, whereas a beginning centralization of the fetal circulation is only recognizable in a closer temporal connection with the fetal imperilment on account of pathological flowprofiles.
  • (6) During a 20-day administration of 2 x 75 mg DMI per day a repeated stimulation of GH was provable on days 0, 10 and 20 in two male patients, whereas no stimulation of GH occurred in two female patients who underwent the same treatment.
  • (7) Timor-Leste is reluctant to pursue the Indonesian military for its crimes, provable in part due to Australian eavesdropping, in the name of enhanced relations with its all-powerful neighbour in Jakarta.
  • (8) Altogether it can be said, that the preparation Caved-S, by a working-principle not as yet exactly defined in all details, effects rapid healing endoscopically provable, but that ulcers with a special localisation, e.g.
  • (9) Further depositions were provable in the subcutaneous fibroblasts of the thermically damaged skin as well as in the spleen and rarely in the brain.
  • (10) It’s a provable fact that far more people gained coverage than had their policies cancelled.
  • (11) A reduction of the initial and late phase of the insulin secretion provable with deterioration of the carbohydrate tolerance must be regarded as cause of metabolic disturbances.
  • (12) There are no clinically provable differences between the two methods of the removal of calculus.
  • (13) In the individual case with a provable causality of trauma on the acceleration of tumor progress a pretension for insurance es legal.
  • (14) --Standardized achievement-tests and self-report rating scales were used in order to demonstrate reversible physical provable psychosis that may be possible.
  • (15) Exclusive fibrocytes with regular cell density in the whole implant were provable after 12 months.
  • (16) m. without further manifestations of tuberculosis has become provable only since the introduction of chemotherapy.
  • (17) Lachman-test proved to be very reliable (more than 90%) and lateral pivot-shift-phenomenon almost provable (more than 86%) for ligament rupture.
  • (18) The largest size of lymph node was 5.0 cm in diameter, and intramural metastasis to the cardia of the stomach and provable invasion to the aorta were also seen.
  • (19) It is reported on the rare case of a symptom-free, atypically localised haemorrhagic pulmonary infarction without provable cause in a 52-year-old male.
  • (20) An accelerated three-phasic fracture healing was provable by ultrasound influence.