test

Meanings

Noun

• A challenge, trial.
• A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
• An examination, given often during the academic term.
• A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
• A Test match.
• The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.Image:Sea urchin tests.jpg|thumb|right|Two sea urchin tests
• Testa; seed coat.
• Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
• A witness.
• testosterone

Verb

• To challenge.
• To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
• To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
• To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
• To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
• To be shown to be by test.
• To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
• To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
• To make a testament, or will.

Related

Similar words

• examination, quiz

Opposite words

• recess

Narrower meaning words

• acid test
• babysitter test
• blood test
• duck test
• field test
• flame test
• inkblot test
• litmus test
• multiple-choice test
• nose test
• Rorschach test
• single-choice test
• smell test
• smoke test
• sniff test
• software test
• stress test

Origin

• From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste, from Latin testum, from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa. See terra, thirst.
• From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis.