| 单词 | proof-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproof-maker proof-maker n. (a) a person employed in a printing house to print off proofs (rare); (b) a person who provides or constructs (apparent) proof (of ownership, a theory, etc.). ΚΠ 1734 in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) 31 If a Form be imposing, and there be a Necessity for the Proof or Revise to be made, the Proof-maker for the Time being to forfeit, if he cap his Balls, and neglect the Proof, having Notice of it, 2d. 1938 E. E. Kohl Land of Burnt Thigh xii. 207 Several early proof-makers sold their deeded quarters,..miles from a railroad, for $3,000 to $3,700 cash money. 1992 Daily Herald (Chicago) 28 Sept. vi. 3/3 (advt.) Web printing company has an opening..for a proof maker. 2002 E. W. Weintraub & E. Gayer in E. W. Weintraub How Econ. became Math. Sci. vi. 204 The outward-looking nature of the activity of the proof-maker in attempting to convince another member..of the disciplinary community, that a particular knowledge claim should be accepted into the community's stock of truths. < as lemmas |
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