Definition of "test"

test¹

/tɛst/

noun
plural tests
1. A challenge, trial.
  Quotations
  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.
  2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168
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, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  Quotations
  It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
  1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!‎
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.
  Quotations
  Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
  1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, (please specify the page number)
verb
third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested
1. To challenge.
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.
  Quotations
  Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
  September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200
6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
  Quotations
  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.
  2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development
7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

test²

/tɛst/

noun
plural tests
1. (obsolete) A witness.
  Quotations
  Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
  1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
verb
third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested
1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

test³

/tɛst/

noun
uncountable
1. (informal, slang, body building) testosterone

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