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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