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test
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Definitions
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 or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- (normally “Test”) A Test match.
- The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
- Testa; seed coat.
- Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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.
- To be shown to be by test.
- To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
noun
- A witness.
verb
- To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
- To make a testament, or will.
noun
- (body building) testosterone
Example sentences
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument
He tested positive for cancer.
to test a solution by litmus paper