test

Meaning

Noun

1. A challenge, trial.
2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. A Test match.
6. The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
7. Testa; seed coat.
8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Verb

1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
4. To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
7. To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
8. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To challenge (someone) to a fight.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a testament, or will.

Synonyms

try

trial

examination

examine

experiment

exam

attempt

try out

prove

check

assay

taste

essay

quiz

investigation

measure

proof

sample

tryout

tempt

inspect

study

survey

verify

put to the test

probe

trial run

probation

investigate

evaluate

try on

inspection

experimental

mental testing

testing

standard

rehearse

screen

mental test

probationary

search

practise

pilot

🧑‍✈️

ordeal

act out

inquiry

experience

analyze

scrutiny

examen

Translations

test

teste

prueba

essai

prova

Prüfung

épreuve

examen

Test

test

tester

test

examen

esame

probar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɛst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: test

In summary

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.

Sentences

" I had to test your courage ," the stranger said .

The results of the test were inconclusive , and it has not been repeated .

For constant " k ", this is in the same complexity class as the Lucas-Lehmer test .

The accuracy of the aspirate is improved by using the Gastroccult test .