test

IPA: tˈɛst

noun

  • A challenge, trial.
  • A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  • (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
  • A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  • (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
  • (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
  • (botany) Testa; seed coat.
  • (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
  • (obsolete) A witness.
  • (informal, slang, body building) testosterone
  • (cricket) A Test match.
  • A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton.
  • Acronym of Treadmill Exercise Stress Test.
  • Abbreviation of testosterone. [(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.]

verb

  • To challenge.
  • To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  • To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
  • (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
  • To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
  • (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
  • (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
  • (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.
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Examples of "test" in Sentences

  • The test is not determinative.
  • The oldest one is the borax bead test or blister test.
  • The most popular kind of test done is the paternity test.
  • The record also contains the test results of the tested specimens.
  • This type of testing involves the bias of the one grading the test.
  • The test is more sensitive if the sample is hydrated before testing.
  • I suppose it depends on the scale of the test and the nature of the test.
  • The last phase in the testing and validation stage is the market testing.
  • I decided to try to perfunctory fact check on one of them, just as a test.
  • The Mantel test is a statistical test of the correlation between two matrices.

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