Test

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tÉ›st/
• Rhymes: -É›st
• South African IPA: /test/

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.

2. For noun:, from Old French teste, from Latin testa ("a piece of earthenware, a tile, etc.")

3. For noun:, from Latin testis ("a witness").

3. For verb:, from French tester, from Latin testari ("bear witness, testify"), from testis ("one who attests, a witness")

Full definition of test

Noun

1. A challenge, trial.
• 2012, Colin Allen, Do I See What You See?, 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. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
3. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
4. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
5. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
6. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
7. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
• DrydenWho would excel, when few can make a test
  Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Synonyms

• (challenge) challenge, trial
• (academics, examination) quiz, examination

Antonyms

• (challenge) breeze
• (academics, examination) recess

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Test
• Dutch: test

Verb

1. To challenge.Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
2. 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
• WashingtonExperience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
3. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
4. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
• 2013, Charles T. Ambrose, Alzheimer’s Disease, 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.
5. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
   He tested positive for cancer.
6. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.to test a solution by litmus paper

Related terms

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Descendants

• German: testen

Latin testari.

Noun

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

Verb

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

Noun

1. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Verb

1. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

Anagrams

• sett, stet