testing

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛstɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ

testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)

1. difficult, tough
   • 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC‎:

     England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.

testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)

1. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
   • 2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke

     The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.

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testing

1. present participle of test

• setting, tingest

From English testing, present participle of test, 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”).

• Hyphenation: tes‧ting

testing

1. to test someone or something

testing

1. a testing; the act of conducting a test

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:testing.