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Webster 1913 Edition
Test
Test
,At once the source, and end, and
Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace,
Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.
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Test
Test
English
Noun
Test (plural Tests)
- (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match
Proper noun
Test
- A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Latin tēsta, the noun with plural form Tests from English test.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/, [tɛst]
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
Test m (genitive Tests or Testes, plural Tests or Teste)
Usage notes
The plural Teste is chiefly, but not exclusively, colloquial.
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- Verb: testen
External links
- Test in Duden online
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English
Noun
test (plural tests)
- A challenge, trial.
- 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 168:
- 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.
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- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.Two sea urchin tests
- (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- Dryden
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
- Dryden
Synonyms
- (challenge): challenge, trial
- (academics, examination): quiz, examination
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Verb
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
- To challenge.
- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
- to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument
- Washington
- Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- 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.
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- (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
- He tested positive for cancer.
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
- German: testen
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Etymology 2
From Old French tester, from Latin testari (“bear witness, testify”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
Noun
test (plural tests)
- (obsolete) A witness.
- Ld. Berners
- Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
- Ld. Berners
Verb
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
Related terms
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Etymology
Noun
test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Etymology 1
From Old French, from Latin testa.
Noun
test m (plural tests)
- test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.
Etymology 2
From English test, itself from Old French
Noun
test m (plural tests)
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃt]
- Hyphenation: test
Noun
test (plural testek)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | test | testek |
accusative | testet | testeket |
dative | testnek | testeknek |
instrumental | testtel | testekkel |
causal-final | testért | testekért |
translative | testté | testekké |
terminative | testig | testekig |
essive-formal | testként | testekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | testben | testekben |
superessive | testen | testeken |
adessive | testnél | testeknél |
illative | testbe | testekbe |
sublative | testre | testekre |
allative | testhez | testekhez |
elative | testből | testekből |
delative | testről | testekről |
ablative | testtől | testektől |
Possessive forms of test | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | testem | testeim |
2nd person sing. | tested | testeid |
3rd person sing. | teste | testei |
1st person plural | testünk | testeink |
2nd person plural | testetek | testeitek |
3rd person plural | testük | testeik |
Derived terms
(Compound words):
- forgástest
- holttest
- testalkat
- testápolás
- testépítés
- testőr
- testvér
(Expressions):
Latvian
Verb
test ?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??
- to beat
- to knock about
- to flog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)
- a test
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
test
- imperative of teste
References
- “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)
- a test
References
- “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Noun
test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)
Descendants
- English: test (borrowed)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (test)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛst/
Noun
test m inan
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /têst/
Noun
tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)
Declension
Swedish
Noun
test c, n
- a test, an examination, a trial
- a test, an attempt, an experiment
- a piece of hair c
Declension
Inflection of test | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testet | test | testen |
Genitive | tests | testets | tests | testens |
Inflection of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testen | tester | testerna |
Genitive | tests | testens | testers | testernas |
Inflection of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testen | testar | testarna |
Genitive | tests | testens | testars | testarnas |
Related terms
- betatest
- hårtest
- testa
Synonyms
- examen
- försök
- experiment
- prov
- skrivning
- tofs
- tuss
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): ˈtest
- Hyphenation: test
Noun
test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)
Declension
benim (my) | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) |
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nominative (yalın) | testim | testlerim |
definite accusative (belirtme) | testimi | testlerimi |
dative (yönelme) | testime | testlerime |
locative (bulunma) | testimde | testlerimde |
ablative (çıkma) | testimden | testlerimden |
genitive (tamlayan) | testimin | testlerimin |
senin (your) | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) |
nominative (yalın) | testin | testlerin |
definite accusative (belirtme) | testini | testlerini |
dative (yönelme) | testine | testlerine |
locative (bulunma) | testinde | testlerinde |
ablative (çıkma) | testinden | testlerinden |
genitive (tamlayan) | testinin | testlerinin |
onun (her/his/its) | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) |
nominative (yalın) | testi | testleri |
definite accusative (belirtme) | testini | testlerini |
dative (yönelme) | testine | testlerine |
locative (bulunma) | testinde | testlerinde |
ablative (çıkma) | testinden | testlerinden |
genitive (tamlayan) | testinin | testlerinin |
bizim (our) | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) |
nominative (yalın) | testimiz | testlerimiz |
definite accusative (belirtme) | testimizi | testlerimizi |
dative (yönelme) | testimize | testlerimize |
locative (bulunma) | testimizde | testlerimizde |
ablative (çıkma) | testimizden | testlerimizden |
genitive (tamlayan) | testimizin | testlerimizin |
sizin (your) | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) |
nominative (yalın) | testiniz | testleriniz |
definite accusative (belirtme) | testinizi | testlerinizi |
dative (yönelme) | testinize | testlerinize |
locative (bulunma) | testinizde | testlerinizde |
ablative (çıkma) | testinizden | testlerinizden |
genitive (tamlayan) | testinizin | testlerinizin |
onların (their) | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) |
nominative (yalın) | testleri | testleri |
definite accusative (belirtme) | testlerini | testlerini |
dative (yönelme) | testlerine | testlerine |
locative (bulunma) | testlerinde | testlerinde |
ablative (çıkma) | testlerinden | testlerinden |
genitive (tamlayan) | testlerinin | testlerinin |