test
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛst
- (South African) IPA(key): /test/
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
test (plural tests)
- 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.
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- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (academia) 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.
- (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
- (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- Dryden
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
- Dryden
Synonyms
- (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
- (academics: examination): examination, quiz
Antonyms
- (academics: examination): recess
Hyponyms
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- 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
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: test
- → Catalan: test
- → Czech: test
- → Danish: test
- → Dutch: test
- → Finnish: testi
- → French: test
- → German: Test
- → Hungarian: teszt
- → Italian: test
- → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
- → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
- → Macedonian: тест (test)
- → Norwegian: test
- → Persian: تست (test)
- → Polish: test
- → Portuguese: teste
- → Romanian: test
- → Russian: тест (test)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: test
- → Spanish: test
- → Swedish: test
- → Turkish: test
- → Ukrainian: тест (test)
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Verb
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
- To challenge.
- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- 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 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.
- (academics) 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.
- 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.
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- (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.
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
- German: testen
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Etymology 2
From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
Noun
test (plural tests)
- (obsolete) A witness.
- Ld. Berners
- Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
- Ld. Berners
Verb
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
Etymology 3
Clipping of testosterone.
Further reading
- test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- test in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Breton
Danish
Noun
test
- test
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Audio (file)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Etymology 1
From Old French test, from Latin testa. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.
Noun
test m (plural tests)
- test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English test, itself from Old French test.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “test” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃt]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: test
Noun
test (plural testek)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | test | testek |
accusative | testet | testeket |
dative | testnek | testeknek |
instrumental | testtel | testekkel |
causal-final | testért | testekért |
translative | testté | testekké |
terminative | testig | testekig |
essive-formal | testként | testekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | testben | testekben |
superessive | testen | testeken |
adessive | testnél | testeknél |
illative | testbe | testekbe |
sublative | testre | testekre |
allative | testhez | testekhez |
elative | testből | testekből |
delative | testről | testekről |
ablative | testtől | testektől |
Possessive forms of test | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | testem | testeim |
2nd person sing. | tested | testeid |
3rd person sing. | teste | testei |
1st person plural | testünk | testeink |
2nd person plural | testetek | testeitek |
3rd person plural | testük | testeik |
Derived terms
References
- Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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Latvian
Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
Old French
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (test)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Swedish
Noun
test c or n
- a test, an examination, a trial
- a test, an attempt, an experiment
- a piece of hair c
Declension
Declension of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testet | test | testen |
Genitive | tests | testets | tests | testens |
Declension of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testen | tester | testerna |
Genitive | tests | testens | testers | testernas |
Declension of test 3 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testen | testar | testarna |
Genitive | tests | testens | testars | testarnas |
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtest/
- Hyphenation: test
Declension
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Definite accusative | testi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | test | testler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | testi | testleri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | teste | testlere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | testte | testlerde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | testten | testlerden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | testin | testlerin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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