Test (IPA: /ˈtɛst/)
| Test (n.) |
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. |
| Test (n.) |
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. |
| Test (n.) |
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love. |
| Test (n.) |
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard. |
| Test (n.) |
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion. |
| Test (n.) |
Judgment; distinction; discrimination. |
| Test (n.) |
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 (v. t.) |
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation. |
| Test (v. t.) |
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. |
| Test (v. t.) |
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper. |
| Test (n.) |
A witness. |
| Test (v. i.) |
To make a testament, or will. |
| Test (n.) |
Alt. of Testa |
| Test |
Procedure for measuring a subject's ability |
| Test |
Command-line utility |
| Test |
Way of checking something for quality or attributes |
| Test |
Hard shell of some spherical marine animals, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans, radiolarians, and testate amoebae |
| Test |
Scientific article published in Nature |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [Blood running down her face] I have to go home. I've got a big physics test tomorrow." - Disturbing Behavior |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [to the Russians searching for him as they leave him at a nuclear test site] Sure, great! Don't wait for me!" - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." - Samuel Johnson |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true." - Arthur C. Clarke |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " And took for truth the test of ridicule." - George Crabbe |
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