Test | |
1. n. (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match | |
2. n. A challenge, trial. | |
3. n. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. | |
4. n. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term. | |
5. n. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc. | |
6. n. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match. | |
7. n. (botany) Testa; seed coat. | |
8. n. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination. | |
9. v. To challenge. | |
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina. | |
10. v. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation. | |
11. v. 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 | |
12. v. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody). | |
13. v. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc. | |
14. v. (copulative) To be shown to be by test. | |
He tested positive for cancer. | |
15. v. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent. | |
to test a solution by litmus paper | |
16. n. (obsolete) A witness. | |
17. v. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it. | |
18. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will. | |
19. n. (informal, slang) testosterone | |