test

noun tests

1. A challenge, trial. 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. An examination, given often during the academic term.

   Similar: examination

3. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc. It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
4. A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items. aptitude test
5. normally “Test” A Test match.
6. The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
7. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
8. Testa; seed coat.
9. obsolete Judgment; distinction; discrimination. Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Similar: quiz, all one's life's worth, challenge, mountain, test, trial · Opposite: recess, breeze, cakewalk

verb tests · testing · tested · test

1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something). 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
4. 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. 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. To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent. to test a solution by litmus paper
8. intransitive, slang, transitive To challenge (someone) to a fight. Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you c

noun tests

1. obsolete A witness. 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Similar: all one's life's worth, challenge, mountain, test, trial · Opposite: breeze, cakewalk

verb tests · testing · tested

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

noun

1. abbreviation, clipping, informal, slang, uncountable Clipping of testosterone

Similar: all one's life's worth, challenge, mountain, test, trial · Opposite: breeze, cakewalk

noun Tests · test

1. A Test match.

proper noun

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

noun TESTs

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Treadmill Exercise Stress Test

noun

1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of testosterone