test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛst/
ipa: [tʰɛst]
ipa: [tʰest]
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: tests
Etymology: From Middle English test, teste, 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. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2012, page 168:
glosses: A challenge, trial.
glosses: A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
topics: academia
scholarly
sciences
glosses: An examination, given often during the academic term.
examples: text: It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
ref: 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
glosses: A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A Test match.
raw_tags: normally "Test"
qualifier: marine biology
glosses: The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Testa; seed coat.
examples: text: Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Synonyms: sense: academics: examination
word: examination
word: quiz
word: all one's life's worth
word: challenge
word: mountain
word: test
word: trial
Hypernyms: word: chore
word: difficult situation
word: job
word: task
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of test
word: ACCESS test
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word: acid test
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word: Ames test
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word: Anderson-Darling test
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word: babysitter test
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word: Benedict's test
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word: blood test
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word: Charpy test
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word: cock's comb test
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word: duck test
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word: elephant test
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word: field test
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word: fine-tooth comb test
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word: flame test
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word: fragility test
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word: giggle test
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word: hearing test
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word: Huhner test
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word: Hühner test
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word: inkblot test
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word: laugh test
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word: level test
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word: litmus test
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word: Martindale rub test
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word: Martindale test
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word: Miller-Rabin test
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word: multiple-choice test
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word: nose test
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word: personality test
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word: Rabin-Miller test
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word: Rorschach test
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word: single-choice test
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word: smell test
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word: smoke test
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word: sniff test
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word: soap test
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word: software test
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word: spin prime test
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word: static test
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word: stress test
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word: virginity test
word: woe
Derived terms: A/B test
Abel test
acceptance test
air puff test
alpha test
alternating series test
B3B-test
ball-on-three-balls test
Becchi's test
Bechdel test
beep test
Beilstein test
bench test
beta test
bleeding time test
bleep test
blind test
Blockburger test
blot test
borax bead test
Bourne test
brake test
breath test
brown bag test
brown paper bag test
burrito test
central location test
Charpy impact test
chi-square test
comb test
Coombs test
Cooper test
copy test
crash test
crash test dummy
cricket test
day-after recall test
device under test
Dick test
diehard test
dielectric withstand test
Dix-Hallpike test
DNA test
double-blind test
Draize test
driving test
drug test
DUT
elk test
emissions test
eye test
field sobriety test
field-test
final test
flash test
flood test
fluorine test
foretest
Friedman test
fuzz test
Griess test
Grubbs' test
Guthrie test
hall test
Heaf test
high-test
high-test peroxide
hit test
hole-board test
hot iron test
Howey test
ignition tube test
Ishihara test
Izod test
Kesternich test
Knoop test
KPSS test
Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test
Lachman test
lateral flow test
Lemon test
limit comparison test
liver function test
Lüscher test
Mako Mori test
Mann-Whitney U test
Mantoux test
Marechal-Rosin test
Marechal's test
maternity test
means-test
means test
Miller test
mirror test
Molisch's test
mom test
Montenegro test
Mooney face test
moose test
Mullen test
Mull of Kintyre test
Murphy's test
nerdity test
nonstress test
nuclear test
nucleic acid test
oil test
open-field test
oral test
oscillating wave test system
Palko test
Papanicolaou test
paper bag test
Pap test
pap test
paraffin test
patch test
paternity test
pencil test
penetration test
pen test
perfect gold standard test
placement test
platelet function test
poppy seed test
postcoital test
Potter Stewart test
precipitin test
pregnancy test
pre-test
prick test
pub test
pulmonary function test
purity test
put to the test
rabbit test
rape test kit
rapid antigen test
RAT test
red face test
reverse Turing test
Rinne test
road-test
road test
Rogers test
Rorschach inkblot test
saliva test
Sally-Anne test
salt spray test
sanity test
Schamroth's test
Schick test
Schwabach test
screen test
self-test
sequential probability ratio test
shit test
shovel test
Sims test
sitting-rising test
smear test
Snellen test
soak test
Sobel test
spark test
speaking test
split test
spot test
stand the test of time
straight face test
straight-face test
Stroop test
Student's t test
Student's t-test
sub-test
surprise test paradox
Szondi test
Tan Delta test
taste-test
teach to the test
Tebbit test
Tecumseh step test
test and trace
test bed
test bench
test card
test case
test cross
test data
test depth
test double
test-drive
test drive
test-driven development
tester
test-fire
test firing
test flight
test-fly
test harness
test match
test mule
test of time
test-paper
test paper
test pattern
test pilot
test pit
test portion
test pressing
test-retest method
test run
test site
test subject
test suite
test-taker
test-time compute
test track
test tube
test tube baby
test-tube baby
Thomas test
tilt table test
time test
tine test
torture-test
Tower of London test
trade test
transfer test
triangle test
triple test
t-test
t test
Tukey's honest significance test
Tukey's range test
Tukey's test
Turing test
unit test
Wada test
Wald test
Wassermann test
Weber test
white-glove test
white glove test
Widal test
Winkler test
Winogradsky test
z-test
Related terms: word: Augean
word: Herculean
word: Sisyphean
word: boil the ocean
word: do the hard yards
word: have a mountain to climb