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• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

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

From Middle English test, teste, borrowed 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.

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?

• (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
• (academics: examination): examination, quiz

• (academics: examination): recess

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.

   • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, ‎Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development

     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.

7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

   to test a solution by litmus paper

• German: testen

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

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.

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

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Clipping of testosterone.

test (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, body building) testosterone

• test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• test in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• TETS, TETs, sett, stet, tets

test

1. witness

test m

1. test

• testovat
• testovací
• testový

• test in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• test in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

test

1. test

From English test.

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

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

1. test

• experiment
• proef

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

From Old French test, from Latin testa. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

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.

Borrowed from English test, itself from Old French test.

test m (plural tests)

1. a test, a tryout, a review

• tester

• “test” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛʃt]

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• Hyphenation: test

test (plural testek)

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

Borrowed from English test.

test m (invariable)

1. test

test m (plural [please provide])

1. text

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

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

From English test

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

1. a test

• synstest

• teste

test

1. imperative of teste

• “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English test

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

1. a test

• synstest

• “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin testum.

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

• French: test
• French: têt
• → Middle English: test
  • English: test (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: test
• → Middle High German: test
  • German: Test

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (test)

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

test m inan

1. test

• IPA^(key): /têst/

tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)

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

test m (plural tests)

1. test

• prueba

test c or n

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

• examen
• försök
• experiment
• prov
• skrivning
• tofs
• tuss

• betatest
• hårtest
• testa

From English test.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtest/
• Hyphenation: test

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

1. test