test
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: academia
ball-games
biology
botany
chemistry
cricket
games
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
scholarly
sciences
sports
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 his gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.
Displaced Old English afandung.
Inflected forms:
form: tests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: testing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: test
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: test
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: test
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: testest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: testedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: tests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: testeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: test
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: test
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: test
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: testing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A challenge, trial.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A challenge, trial.
pos: noun
gloss: A challenge, trial.
pos: noun
examples: It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
gloss: A challenge, trial.
pos: noun
examples: aptitude test
Test Theory
gloss: A challenge, trial.
pos: noun
gloss: The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
pos: noun
gloss: A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
pos: noun
gloss: Testa; seed coat.
pos: noun
gloss: Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
gloss: To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
pos: verb
examples: Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
gloss: To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
pos: verb
gloss: To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
pos: verb
examples: to test the soundness of a principle
to test the validity of an argument
September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
gloss: To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
pos: verb
gloss: To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To be shown to be by test.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: He tested positive for cancer.
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.
gloss: To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
pos: verb
examples: to test a solution by litmus paper
gloss: To challenge (someone) to a fight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.
I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah
Synonyms: quiz
all one's life's worth
challenge
mountain
test
trial
Antonyms: recess
breeze
cakewalk
Related words: Augean
Herculean
Sisyphean
boil the ocean
do the hard yards
have a mountain to climb
Derived words: A/B test
Abel test
acceptance test
aftertest
air puff test
alcotest
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
black building 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
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
immunotest
intertest
intratest
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
microtest
midtest
Miller test
mirror test
Molisch's test
mom test
Montenegro test
Mooney face test
moose test
Mullen test
Mull of Kintyre test
multitest
Murphy's test
nerdity test
nonstress test
nontest
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
posttest
Potter Stewart test
precipitin test
pregnancy test
pre-test
prick test
pub test
pulmonary function test
purity test
put to the test
quest
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
Sargent Jump 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
stereotest
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
testability
testable
test and trace
testate
testbank
testbed
test bed
test bench
testbench
test card
test case
testcross
test cross
test data
test depth
test double
test drive
test-drive
test-driven development
test dummy
tester
test-fire
testfire
test firing
test flight
test-fly
test harness
testitis
testless
testlet
test match
test mule
test of time
test paper
test-paper
test pattern
testpiece
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
testworthy
thermotest
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
Vito Russo test
Wada test
Wald test
Wassermann test
Weber test
white-glove test
white glove test
Widal test
Winkler test
Winogradsky test
z-test
backtest
field-test
mistest
phototest
playtest
pretest
retest
roadtest
serotest
subtest
tribotest
biotest
cotest
overtest
testee
testing 1-2-3
test out
test someone's patience
test the water
test the waters
tried and tested
undertest
untestability
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: provë
lang: Albanian
word: prova
lang: Arabic
word: اِخْتِبَار
roman: iḵtibār
lang: Arabic
word: تَجْرِبَة
roman: tajriba
lang: Asturian
word: prueba
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sınaq
lang: Belarusian
word: тэст
roman: test
lang: Belarusian
word: выпрабава́нне
roman: vyprabavánnje
lang: Belarusian
word: выпрабава́ньне
roman: vyprabavánʹnje
lang: Bulgarian
word: тест
roman: test
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпита́ние
roman: izpitánie
lang: Burmese
word: အစမ်း
roman: a.cam:
lang: Catalan
word: prova
lang: Catalan
word: test
lang: Cebuano
word: pagsulay
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 試驗 /试验
roman: shìyàn
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: sınav
lang: Czech
word: test
lang: Czech
word: zkouška
lang: Danish
word: prøve
lang: Danish
word: prøvelse
lang: Danish
word: forsøg
lang: Dutch
word: test
lang: Dutch
word: proef
lang: Esperanto
word: testo
lang: Finnish
word: koe
lang: Finnish
word: koetus
lang: French
word: épreuve
lang: Friulian
word: prove
lang: Galician
word: proba
lang: Galician
word: test
lang: Galician
word: ensaio
lang: German
word: Test
lang: German
word: Versuch
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍃
roman: gakusts
lang: Greek
word: δοκιμασία
roman: dokimasía
lang: Greek
word: δοκιμή
roman: dokimí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πεῖρα
roman: peîra
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δοκιμή
roman: dokimḗ
lang: Hebrew
word: מִבְחָן
roman: mivkhán
lang: Hindi
word: चुनौती
roman: cunautī
lang: Hungarian
word: próba
lang: Indonesian
word: tes
lang: Italian
word: prova
lang: Italian
word: verifica
lang: Japanese
word: 実験
roman: jikken
lang: Japanese
word: 試練
roman: shiren
lang: Korean
word: 검사
roman: geomsa
lang: Ladin
word: proa
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Prouf
lang: Malay
word: ujian
lang: Malayalam
word: പരീക്ഷ
roman: parīkṣa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: test
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: prøve
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forsøk
lang: Occitan
word: espròva
lang: Iranian Persian
word: آزْمَایِش
roman: âzmâyeš
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Test
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Proow
lang: Polish
word: próba
lang: Portuguese
word: prova
lang: Portuguese
word: teste
lang: Romanian
word: probă
lang: Russian
word: про́ба
roman: próba
lang: Russian
word: тест
roman: tɛst
lang: Russian
word: испыта́ние
roman: ispytánije
lang: Sanskrit
word: परीक्षा
roman: parīkṣā
lang: Sardinian
word: proa
lang: Sardinian
word: proba
lang: Sardinian
word: prova
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dearbhadh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feuchainn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: те̏ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tȅst
lang: Sicilian
word: prova
lang: Slovak
word: test
lang: Slovene
word: preizkus
lang: Slovene
word: preizkušnja
lang: Spanish
word: prueba
lang: Spanish
word: probatura
lang: Swahili
word: jaribio
lang: Swedish
word: prov
lang: Swedish
word: prövning
lang: Swedish
word: försök
lang: Tagalog
word: pagsusulit
lang: Tajik
word: озмоиш
roman: ozmoyiš
lang: Turkish
word: test
lang: Turkish
word: deneme
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فتنه
roman: fitne
lang: Ukrainian
word: тест
roman: test
lang: Ukrainian
word: випро́бування
roman: vypróbuvannja
lang: Venetan
word: prova
lang: Vietnamese
word: sự thử thách
lang: Zazaki
word: cerbnayen
lang: Zazaki
word: test kerden
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sınamaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sınaqdan keçirmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпи́твам
roman: izpítvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: тествам
roman: testvam
lang: Catalan
word: posar a prova
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 測試 /测试
roman: cèshì
lang: Danish
word: udfordre
lang: Finnish
word: testata
lang: Finnish
word: koestaa
lang: Finnish
word: haastaa
lang: French
word: tester
lang: French
word: mettre à l'épreuve
lang: German
word: fordern
lang: German
word: abverlangen
lang: German
word: provozieren
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽
roman: kiusan
lang: Greek
word: δοκιμάζω
roman: dokimázo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐλέγχω
roman: elénkhō
lang: Hungarian
word: kihív
lang: Italian
word: testare
lang: Italian
word: mettere alla prova
lang: Japanese
word: 試す
roman: tamesu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сыноо
roman: sınoo
lang: Latin
word: perīclitor
lang: Malay
word: menguji
lang: Malayalam
word: പരീക്ഷിക്കുക
roman: parīkṣikkuka
lang: Portuguese
word: testar
lang: Romanian
word: proba
lang: Romanian
word: încerca
lang: Romanian
word: testa
lang: Russian
word: испы́тывать
roman: ispýtyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: испыта́ть
roman: ispytátʹ
lang: Russian
word: тести́ровать
roman: tɛstírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: протести́ровать
roman: protɛstírovatʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feuch
lang: Slovak
word: testovať
lang: Slovak
word: otestovať
lang: Slovene
word: preizkusiti
lang: Spanish
word: testear
lang: Spanish
word: probar
lang: Swahili
word: -jaribu
lang: Ukrainian
word: випробовувати
roman: vyprobovuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: тестувати
roman: testuvaty
lang: Vietnamese
word: thử
lang: Vietnamese
word: thử thách