assay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English assay (noun) and assayen (verb), from Anglo-Norman assai (noun) and Anglo-Norman assaier (verb), from Old French essai. Doublet of essay.
Inflected forms:
form: assays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: assays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Trial, attempt.
pos: noun
examples: I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
gloss: Examination and determination; test.
pos: noun
examples: This cannot be, by no assay of reason.
gloss: The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
pos: noun
gloss: Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
pos: noun
examples: Through many hard assayes which did betide.
gloss: Tested purity or value.
pos: noun
examples: Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay.
gloss: The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
pos: noun
gloss: The alloy or metal to be assayed.
pos: noun
gloss: To attempt (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To-night let us assay our plot.
Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed.
Who seest the stark array
And hast not stayed to count
But singly wilt assay
The many-cannoned mount[…].
Speaking before a small crowd beneath antique airplanes suspended in the atrium of the State of Iowa Historical Museum, an effortfully cheerful Mr Romney assayed an early version of a stump speech I imagine will become a staple of his campaign for the Republican nomination, once it "officially" begins some time next week in New Hampshire.
gloss: To try, attempt (to do something).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: When Saul cam to Jerusalem he assayde to cople hymsilfe with the apostles, and they wer all afrayde of hym and beleved not that he was a disciple.
gloss: To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I wold not by my wille that ony of vs were matched with hym
Nay said sir Gawayne not so
it were shame to vs were he not assayed were he neuer soo good a knyghte
The marquis, in obsession for his wife,
Longed to expose her constancy to test.
He could not throw the thought away or rest,
Having a marvellous passion to assay her;
Needless, God knows, to frighten and dismay her,
He had assayed her faith enough before
And ever found her good; what was the need
Of heaping trial on her, more and more?
gloss: To affect.
pos: verb
examples: when the heart is ill assay'd
gloss: To try tasting, as food or drink.
pos: verb
Derived words: assay dish
assay-dish
assay mark
assay office
assay plate
assay pound
assay ton
bandshift assay
Bradford assay
ecoassay
fire assay
interassay
intraassay
microassay
multiassay
nanoassay
pan-assay interference compound
pathoassay
preassay
seroassay
specific gravity assay
bioassay
immunoassay
radioassay
radioimmunoassay
assayable
assayer
bioassayed
reassay
unassayed
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: cəhd etmək
lang: Catalan
word: assajar de
lang: Catalan
word: provar (de)
lang: Catalan
word: tractar de
lang: Catalan
word: procurar de
lang: German
word: versuchen
lang: German
word: probieren
lang: Russian
word: пыта́ться
roman: pytátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: probar
lang: Spanish
word: tratar