Test

Test (plural Tests)

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

Test

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

• Test Valley

• TETS, TETs, sett, stet, tets

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/, [tɛst]

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

From English test, from Old French test (“pot; melting pot, especially one in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“pot”). Compare etymology 2 below. The development from “melting pot” to “procedure of testing metals” also happened natively in earlier German, but the further generalisation is exclusively English.

Test m (genitive Tests or Testes, plural Tests or Teste, diminutive Testchen n)

1. test

• The commoner plural is Tests. The form Teste is chiefly colloquial.

• Verb: testen

From Middle High German test (“melting pot”), from Old French test, from Latin testum.

Test m (genitive Testes, plural Teste)

1. (obsolete) melting pot

• Tiegel; Schmelztiegel

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