Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To read (copy or proof) in order to find errors and mark corrections.
- v. To read copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. read for errors
Examples
“I have proofread from the 1926 edition, with one exception.”
Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman"
“I always try to 'proofread' my posts before I hit send.”
Poll: Obama Leads By Six, But Majority Says He's The "Riskier" Choice
“Also, how did you get the bloggerhack comments to say "proofread" and not "preview?”
“I can tell you one thing that definitely didn’t happen: the book didn’t get edited, copy edited, or proofread, which is sad considering that it’s only 36 pages long.”
“Framing it as a 'proofread' is asking them to be an editor, not a teacher.”
“He was however, very disappointed as he "proofread" this copy that I used the word "sneaks" above.”
“Over the past several weeks, the Mt. Lebanon school board has discussed the possible creation of a community advisory committee to "proofread" the design and design process for the high school renovation project.”
“Some molecules check for errors or 'proofread' the offspring for typos, for instance; others, when alerted to a problem, arrest the replication process and conduct repairs.”
“Being a computer, the machine performs this comparison checking very, very rapidly: it takes only a minute to "proofread" a file containing about 7,000 words.”
“If you just proofread your article ONCE before you published, you wouldn't sound like such an idiot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘proofread’.
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Here's Your Proof
A list of words ending in -proof. Please add your favorite(s). Mine is foolproof.
*Proof* looks and sounds funny to me.
Included is proof-strain, which, with strainproof, makes a nice ...windproof, soundproof, frostproof, fireproof, childproof, rainproof, airproof, waterproof, skidproof, weatherproof, shellproof, shockproof and 125 more...
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Schwa-Free
Words of more than one syllable that include no schwas in their pronunciation.
(Note for pedants: some of these words have more than one pronunciation. As long as just one of the possi...decoy, ballet, survey, sashay, argon, lilac, sumac, café, princess, dildo, wordy, flighty and 30 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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My Stupid Day
Words that happened today. Outside of this site, I mean.
overcast, shower, storm, voicemail, email, music, contract, passive-aggressive, megabytes, filtered, mocha, antacid and 44 more...
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colloquies
frot, sprite, earth, oosik, luncheon, tappen, basonym, flesch-kincaid gr..., zelena zelena, proofread, inconvenient beha..., pussify and 26 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 132
proofread, pain in the neck, slump, stuck-up, throw in towel, toothpick, get anywhere, stock market, make a killing, motor home
Tweets
Looking for tweets for proofread.
reesetee Partly on paper in a multiple-choice exam, partly by running around with weights strapped to oneself (to simulate rescue apparatus) up ladders and down, on your knees and off, dragging giant hoselines around and hauling 165-pound dummies through doorways. Also, you have to prove you're not crazy. Aug 7, 2008
frindley And how exactly does one go about taking a firefighter exam? Aug 7, 2008
reesetee Frindley, I'll trade you that proofreading job for my project right now--revising a text on taking a firefighter exam. Aug 4, 2008
frindley I should be doing this. I really should. But I don't want to look at the season brochure one more time. Sigh. Off I go. See if I can find any lingering flagships or sublime beauties or… Aug 3, 2008
chained_bear You should have dropped a hint that there was more in the letter than a normal person would have realized. That could not fail to impress her!
I would have been *thrilled* to get something like that. I dated a linguist for a time, and he never did anything that cool.
Oh well. Just goes to show, make sure you proofread. Feb 13, 2007
uselessness Years ago I was friends with a nice girl who was also a master linguist. I once wrote her a letter with strategically arranged line breaks, so that if she were to read the first word of every line it would tell her how enamored I was by her and how I was dying to be more than friends.
She's an utter genius, but unsurprisingly she didn't read it that way. I took this as an omen that we were never meant to be. It's a shame, because though I spent hours encoding that message, the actual body of the letter was rather boring and didn't really say anything of interest. She must have thought I was nuts to bother writing a meaningless, rambling thing like that.
Now today, our lives have gone separate paths. Sometimes though I wonder if she did find the hidden message and just didn't say anything about it. Or if she still has the note and reads it wistfully from time to time. Most likely not. Doesn't matter. I have since learned to be a little more direct and a little less shy in my dealings with the opposite sex. :-) Feb 13, 2007
chained_bear Sometimes reading a piece backwards will tip you off that you something out. (If I were more clever, this comment would say something backwards that it doesn't say forwards. Alas.) Feb 13, 2007
uselessness Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Jan 25, 2007