English Explanatory Dictionary

test

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A challenge, trial.
  2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  3. An examination, given often during the academic term.
  4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  5. A Test match.
  6. The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
  7. Testa; seed coat.
  8. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
verb
  1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
  2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
  4. To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
  5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
  6. To be shown to be by test.
  7. To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
  8. To challenge (someone) to a fight.
noun
  1. A witness.
verb
  1. To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
  2. To make a testament, or will.
noun
  1. Clipping of testosterone.
noun
  1. A Test match.
name
  1. A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton.
noun
  1. Acronym of Treadmill Exercise Stress Test.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of testosterone.

Pronunciation

/tɛst/ [tʰɛst] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-test.wav En-us-test.ogg En-uk-a test.ogg [tʰest]

Word forms

test tests testing tested no-table-tags glossary testest testedst testeth

Etymology

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test his gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

Synonyms

quiz all one's life's worth challenge mountain test trial examination

Antonyms

recess breeze cakewalk

Related words

Augean Herculean Sisyphean boil the ocean do the hard yards have a mountain to climb attest contest detest protest

Derived words

A/B test Abel test acceptance test air puff test alpha test alternating series test B3B-test ball-on-three-balls test Becchi's test Bechdel test beep test Beilstein test bench test beta test bleeding time test bleep test blind test Blockburger test blot test borax bead test Bourne test brake test breath test brown bag test brown paper bag test burrito test central location test Charpy impact test chi-square test comb test Coombs test Cooper test copy test crash test crash test dummy cricket test day-after recall test device under test Dick test diehard test dielectric withstand test Dix-Hallpike test DNA test double-blind test Draize test driving test drug test DUT elk test emissions test eye test field sobriety test final test flash test flood test fluorine test foretest Friedman test fuzz test Griess test

Translations

Azerbaijani: sınamaq Azerbaijani: sınaqdan keçirmək Bulgarian: изпи́твам Bulgarian: тествам Catalan: posar a prova Chinese Mandarin: 測試 /测试 Danish: udfordre Finnish: testata Finnish: koestaa Finnish: haastaa French: tester French: mettre à l'épreuve German: fordern German: abverlangen German: provozieren Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 Greek: δοκιμάζω Ancient Greek: ἐλέγχω Hungarian: kihív Italian: testare Italian: mettere alla prova Japanese: 試す Kyrgyz: сыноо Latin: perīclitor Malay: menguji Malayalam: പരീക്ഷിക്കുക Portuguese: testar Romanian: proba Romanian: încerca Romanian: testa Russian: испы́тывать Russian: испыта́ть Russian: тести́ровать Russian: протести́ровать Scottish Gaelic: feuch Slovak: testovať Slovak: otestovať Slovene: preizkusiti Spanish: testear Spanish: probar Swahili: -jaribu Ukrainian: випробовувати Ukrainian: тестувати Vietnamese: thử Vietnamese: thử thách
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