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Testing

noun

The act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works.

An examination of the characteristics of something. "It involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

The act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned. Synonym: examination.

Test

verb

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

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

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

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

Show a certain characteristic when tested.

Achieve a certain score or rating on a test.

Determine the presence or properties of (a substance).

Undergo a test.

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... remained upon the Statute Book. At this juncture Sir Henry de Villiers, Chief Justice of Cape Colony, came to Pretoria for the purpose of effecting a compromise and averting a crisis. The compromise was practically an armistice. The judges promised not to exercise the testing right pending the speedy introduction of a measure safeguarding the independence of the courts. Mr. Kruger on his side promised to refrain from enforcing the provisions of Law 1 of 1897, and undertook to introduce as speedily as possible the ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... genius was struggling with poverty and apparently unfavorable circumstances. He was always a child, yearning to feel the arms of some affection around him, very susceptible to the moods of other people, yet testing them by a humorous sincerity. All the books which he devoured in his desultory rage for knowledge turned into nourishment for an imagination that was destined chiefly to interpret a very lofty moral sense and a very democratic feeling. And whenever his humor caught an edge in the easterly moments ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... you will need an enamel or earthenware saucepan; a long wooden spoon; one or two old soup-plates or dishes; a bowl, if there is any mixing to be done; a cup of cold water for testing; a silver knife; and, if you are not cooking in the kitchen, a piece of oil-cloth or several thicknesses of brown paper to ...

— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... one Saturday night fastened a bar of bismuth in a clamp, and had attached it on either side to an electric wire, in order to observe what effect the current would have upon it. I had been testing each metal in turn, exposing them to the influence for from one to two hours. I had just got everything in position, and had completed my connection, when I received a telegram to say that John Stillingfleet, an old chemist in London with whom I had ...

— The Doings Of Raffles Haw • Arthur Conan Doyle

... not escape me, and immediately a joke was afoot. I had barely time to make two or three details of arrangement with the clerk, and resume my seat in the cabin, ere the barber sought a second interview, bent on testing the alleged powers of ...

— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton

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