test
A challenge, trial.
Noun
- A challenge, trial.
- Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of...
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(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
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A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test - 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
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(psychology, psychometrics) A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items.
- aptitude test
- Test Theory
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(cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
- The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- Testa; seed coat.
- Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best? - 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC,...
Origin
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. Displaced Old English afandung.
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Augean Herculean Sisyphean boil the ocean do the hard yards have a mountain to climb
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A/B test Abel test acceptance test aftertest air puff test alcotest alpha test alternating series test B3B-test backtest ball-on-three-balls test Becchi's test Bechdel test beep test Beilstein test bench test beta test black building test bleeding time test bleep test blind test Blockburger test blot test borax bead test
Noun obsolete
- A witness.
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
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From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
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Noun bodybuilding, hobbies
- Clipping of testosterone.
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Verb Entry 4
- To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- 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.
- to test the soundness of a principle
- to test the validity of an argument
- September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
- 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.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems–[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the...
- To be shown to be by test.
- He tested positive for cancer.
- It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million. - 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth,...
- To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- to test a solution by litmus paper
- To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking...
- I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah - 2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again:
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Verb obsolete, transitive
- To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
- To make a testament, or will.