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Test

noun

1.

Trying something to find out about it. Synonyms: trial, trial run, tryout. "A trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"

2.

Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc. Synonyms: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test.

3.

A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge. Synonyms: exam, examination.

4.

The act of undergoing testing. Synonym: trial. "Candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

5.

The act of testing something. Synonyms: run, trial. "He called each flip of the coin a new trial"

6.

A hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins.

verb

(past & past part. tested; pres. part. testing)

1.

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to. Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out. "Test this recipe"

2.

Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection. Synonym: screen.

3.

Examine someone's knowledge of something. Synonym: quiz. "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

4.

Show a certain characteristic when tested.

5.

Achieve a certain score or rating on a test.

6.

Determine the presence or properties of (a substance).

7.

Undergo a test.

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"Test" Quotes from Famous Books

... too, he liked, in spite of his simplicity of habits; loved to gather his friends around his board, and was always a genial host. For literature he had no time, but he enjoyed oratory, and liked to hear good reading. He used to test his son's progress in reading, at the close of each half year, by making him read aloud a chapter of the Bible. His good sense confined his ambition to his proper sphere, and prevented him from giving ear ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... resembled autumn manoeuvres, and was mainly intended to test the value of the new tactics which Germany proposed to use next spring against a more serious foe. It was more realistic to experiment upon Russians than among themselves, and Von Hutier was selected to make the demonstration. ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... five changes of fashion. It was averred that, when square crowns were in vogue, she flattened it over a tin pan, and that, when round crowns returned, she bent it on the bedpost. There was such a charm in her way of adapting these treasures, that the other girls liked to test her with new problems in the way of millinery and dress-making; millionnaire friends implored her to trim their hats, and lent her their own things in order to learn how to wear them. This applied especially to certain rich cousins, shy and studious ...

— Malbone - An Oldport Romance • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa

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