test

See also: Test, TEST, țest, and tesť

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • (South African) IPA(key): /test/

Etymology 1

From Old French test (“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.

Noun

test (plural tests)

  1. 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.
  2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
  4. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  5. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
  6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
    Two sea urchin tests
  7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
  8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
    • Dryden
      Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Synonyms
  • (challenge, trial): For semantic relationships of this term, see test in the Thesaurus.
  • (academics: examination): examination, quiz
Antonyms
  • (academics: examination): recess
Hyponyms
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Translations

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. To challenge.
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  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.
    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.
  4. (academics) 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.
    • 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.
  6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
    He tested positive for cancer.
    • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, ‎Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development
      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.
  7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
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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)

  1. (obsolete) A witness.
    • Ld. Berners
      Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. (obsolete) To make a testament, or will.

Further reading

  • test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • test in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

test

  1. witness

Czech

Noun

test m

  1. test

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • test in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • test in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

test

  1. test

Dutch

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/
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Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. test

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/

Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testa.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

  1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  2. (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)

  1. a test, a tryout, a review
Derived terms

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃt]
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  • Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (plural testek)

  1. (anatomy) body
  2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
  3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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
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

References

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (invariable)

  1. test

Ladin

Noun

test m (plural [please provide])

  1. text

Latvian

Verb

test ?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??

  1. to beat
  2. to knock about
  3. to flog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

  1. a test
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

test

  1. imperative of teste

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

  1. a test

Derived terms

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testum.

Noun

test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

  1. (uncountable) clay
  2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

Descendants

  • English: test (borrowed)

References

  • 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

  1. test

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /têst/

Noun

tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)

  1. test (challenge, trial)
  2. test (academics)
  3. test (product examination)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

test m (plural tests)

  1. test

Synonyms

Swedish

Noun

test c, n

  1. a test, an examination, a trial
  2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
  3. a piece of hair c

Declension

Declension of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testet test testen
Genitive tests testets tests testens
Declension of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testen tester testerna
Genitive tests testens testers testernas
Declension of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testen testar testarna
Genitive tests testens testars testarnas

Synonyms

Turkish

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): ˈtest
  • Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

  1. test

Declension

Inflection
Nominative test
Definite accusative testi
Singular Plural
Nominative test testler
Definite accusative testi testleri
Dative teste testlere
Locative testte testlerde
Ablative testten testlerden
Genitive testin testlerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular testim testlerim
2nd singular testin testlerin
3rd singular testi testleri
1st plural testimiz testlerimiz
2nd plural testiniz testleriniz
3rd plural testleri testleri

Derived terms

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