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Webster 1913 Edition

Test

Test

,
Noun.
[OE.
test
test, or cupel, potsherd, F.
têt
, from L.
testum
an earthen vessel; akin to
testa
a piece of burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for
tersta
, and akin to
torrere
to patch,
terra
earth (cf.
Thirst
, and
Terrace
), but cf. Zend
tasta
cup. Cf.
Test
a shell,
Testaceous
,
Tester
a covering, a coin,
Testy
,
Tête-à-tête
.]
1.
(Metal.)
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots,
tests
, and many mo.
Chaucer.
2.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial;
as, to put a man’s assertions to a
test
.
“Bring me to the test.”
Shak.
3.
Means of trial;
as, absence is a
test
of love
.
Each
test
every light her muse will bear.
Dryden.
4.
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and
test
of art.
Pope.
5.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Our
test
excludes your tribe from benefit.
Dryden.
6.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a
test

Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Dryden.
7.
(Chem.)
A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
Test act
(Eng. Law)
,
an act of the English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England.
Blackstone.
–
Test object
(Optics)
,
an object which tests the power or quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain degree of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence or its peculiar texture or markings.
–
Test paper
.
(a)
(Chem.)
Paper prepared for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated with a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acted upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc.
(b)
(Law)
An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of proving handwriting.
–
Test tube
.
(Chem.)
(a)
A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing ordinary reactions.
(b)
A graduated tube.
Syn. – Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment; trial.
–
Test
,
Trial
. Trial is the wider term; test is a searching and decisive trial. It is derived from the Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or criterion of the most decisive kind.
I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose
trial
shall better publish his commediation.
Shakespeare
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the
test
of fortune,
Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace,
Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.
Addison.

Test

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tested
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Testing
.]
1.
(Metal.)
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
2.
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try;
as, to
test
the soundness of a principle; to
test
the validity of an argument.
Experience is the surest standard by which to
test
the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Washington.
3.
(Chem.)
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent;
as, to
test
a solution by litmus paper
.

Test

,
Noun.
[L.
testis
. Cf.
Testament
,
Testify
.]
A witness.
[Obs.]
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety
tests
of that deed.
Ld. Berners.

Test

,
Verb.
I.
[L.
testari
. See
Testament
.]
To make a testament, or will.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Test

TEST

,
Noun.
[L. testa, an earthen pot.]
1.
In metallurgy, a large cupel, or a vessel in the nature of a cupel, formed of wood ashes and finely powdered brick dust, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2.
Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune.
Like purest gold--
3.
Means of trial.
Each test and every light her muse will bear.
4.
That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.
--Life, force and beauty must of all impart,
At once the source, the end and test of art.
5.
Discriminative characteristic; standard.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
6.
Judgment; distinction.
Who would excel, when few can make a test
Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
7.
In chimistry, a substance employed to detect any unknown constituent of a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property. Thus ammonia is a test of copper, because it strikes a blue color with that metal, by which a minute quantity of it can be discovered when in combination with other substances.

TEST

,
Noun.
[L. testis, a witness, properly one that affirms.]
In England, an oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, are obliged to take within six months after their admission. They were formerly obliged also to receive the sacrament, according to the usage of the church of England. These requisitions are made by Stat. 25 Charles II. which is called the test act. The test of 7 Jac.1. was removed in 1753.

TEST

,
Verb.
T.
To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
The true way of testing its character, is to suppose it [the system] will be persevered in.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
To test this position--
In order to test the correctness of this system--
This expedient has been already tested.
1.
To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.
2.
In metallurgy, to refine gold or silver by means of lead, in a test, by the destruction, vitrification or scarification of all extraneous matter.

Definition 2024

Test

Test

See also: test, TEST, and țest

English

Noun

Test ‎(plural Tests)

  1. (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match

Proper noun

Test

  1. A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Latin tēsta, the noun with plural form Tests from English test.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/, [tɛst]
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

Test m ‎(genitive Tests or Testes, plural Tests or Teste)

  1. test

Usage notes

The plural Teste is chiefly, but not exclusively, colloquial.

Declension

Hyponyms

Derived terms

External links

  • Test in Duden online

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test

See also: Test, TEST, and țest

English

Noun

test ‎(plural tests)

  1. A challenge, trial.
    • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 168:
      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 representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
  2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
  4. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  5. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
  6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
    Two sea urchin tests
  7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
  8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
    • Dryden
      Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

Verb

test ‎(third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. To challenge.
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  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.
    to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument
    • Washington
      Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
  4. (academics) 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.
    • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
      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 cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
  6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
    He tested positive for cancer.‎
  7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French tester, from Latin testari ‎(“bear witness, testify”), from testis ‎(“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test ‎(plural tests)

  1. (obsolete) A witness.
    • Ld. Berners
      Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Verb

test ‎(third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. (obsolete) To make a testament, or will.
Related terms

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

test

  1. witness

Czech

Noun

test m

  1. test

Declension

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/

Etymology

From English test.

Noun

test m ‎(plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. test

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin testa.

Noun

test m ‎(plural tests)

  1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.

Etymology 2

From English test, itself from Old French

Noun

test m ‎(plural tests)

  1. a test, a tryout, a review
Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃt]
  • Hyphenation: test

Noun

test ‎(plural testek)

  1. body
  2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
  3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative test testek
accusative testet testeket
dative testnek testeknek
instrumental testtel testekkel
causal-final testért testekért
translative testté testekké
terminative testig testekig
essive-formal testként testekként
essive-modal — —
inessive testben testekben
superessive testen testeken
adessive testnél testeknél
illative testbe testekbe
sublative testre testekre
allative testhez testekhez
elative testből testekből
delative testről testekről
ablative testtől testektől
Possessive forms of test
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. testem testeim
2nd person sing. tested testeid
3rd person sing. teste testei
1st person plural testünk testeink
2nd person plural testetek testeitek
3rd person plural testük testeik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

(Expressions):

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English

Noun

test m ‎(invariable)

  1. test

Ladin

Noun

test m ‎(plural [please provide])

  1. text

Latvian

Verb

test ?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??

  1. to beat
  2. to knock about
  3. to flog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English test

Noun

test m ‎(definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

  1. a test
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

test

  1. imperative of teste

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English test

Noun

test m ‎(definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

  1. a test

References

Old French

Etymology

Latin testum.

Noun

test m ‎(oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

  1. (uncountable) clay
  2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

Descendants

  • English: test (borrowed)

References

  • (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (test)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/

Noun

test m inan

  1. test

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /têst/

Noun

tȅst m ‎(Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)

  1. test (challenge, trial)
  2. test (academics)
  3. test (product examination)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

test m ‎(plural tests)

  1. test

Synonyms

Swedish

Noun

test c, n

  1. a test, an examination, a trial
  2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
  3. a piece of hair c

Declension

Inflection of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testet test testen
Genitive tests testets tests testens
Inflection of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testen tester testerna
Genitive tests testens testers testernas
Inflection of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testen testar testarna
Genitive tests testens testars testarnas

Related terms

  • betatest
  • hårtest
  • testa

Synonyms

Turkish

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): ˈtest
  • Hyphenation: test

Noun

test ‎(definite accusative testi, plural testler)

  1. test

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology

From Old French test ‎(“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 seen also in terra ‎(“earth”) for *tersa ‎(“dry land”); see terra, thirst.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • (South African) IPA(key): /test/

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