Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard external covering, as that of certain amoebas, dinoflagellates, and sea urchins.
- noun A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something; a trial.
- noun A series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability.
- noun A basis for evaluation or judgment.
- noun Chemistry A physical or chemical change by which a substance may be detected or its properties ascertained.
- noun A cupel.
- intransitive verb To subject to a test; try.
- intransitive verb To determine the presence or properties of (a substance).
- intransitive verb To assay (metal) in a cupel.
- intransitive verb To undergo a test.
- intransitive verb To administer a test.
- intransitive verb To achieve a score or rating on tests.
- intransitive verb To exhibit a given characteristic when subjected to a test.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A potsherd.
- noun In zoology, the hard covering of certain animals; a shell; a lorica.
- noun In botany, same as
testa , 2. - noun A test for blood in the urine. On boiling with caustic alkali, the resultant precipitate of phosphates will present a red color.
- noun For glucose, as in urine, a strip of white woolen cloth steeped in a 1:3 solution of stannous chlorid in water and dried. Such a test strip, dipped into the suspected liquid and then heated to 130° C., turns brown if glucose is present.
- noun A test for the presence of blood in the intestinal discharges, determined by the production of a blue-violet color on treatment with guaiac and turpentine.
- In metallurgy, to refine, as gold or silver, by means of lead, in a test, by the removal by scorification of all extraneous matter, or in some other way.
- To put to the test; bring to trial and examination; compare with a standard; try: as, to
test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument; to test a person's loyalty; to test the electrical resistance of a wire. - Specifically, in chem., to examine by the use of some reagent.
- In law, to attest and date: as, a writing duly tested.
- To make a will or testament.
- noun An earthen pot in which metals were tried.
- noun Specifically The movable hearth or cupel of a reverberatory furnace, used in separating silver from lead by cupellation (see
cupel ), according to the method usually followed in England. - noun Examination by the test or cupel; hence, any critical trial or examination: as, a crucial test.
- noun Means of trial; that by which the presence, quality, or genuineness or something is shown; touchstone.
- noun [capitalized] The Test Act of 1673. See phrase below.
- noun In chem., a substance which is employed to detect the presence of any ingredient in a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property; a substance which, being added to another, indicates the chemical nature of that other substance by producing certain changes in appearance and properties; a reagent: thus, infusion of galls is a test of the presence of iron, which it renders evident by the production of a black color in liquids containing that metal; litmus is a test for determining the presence of acids when uncombined or in excess, as its blue color is turned red by acids.
- noun Judgment; discrimination; distinction.
- noun An apparatus for proving light hydrocarbon oils by heat, to find the temperature at which they evolve explosive vapors; an oil test.
- noun Synonyms and Proof, ordeal, criterion. See
inference . - noun A witness.
- noun Testimony; evidence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A witness.
- intransitive verb obsolete To make a testament, or will.
- transitive verb (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- transitive verb To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try
- transitive verb (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- transitive verb To administer a test{8} to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.
- noun (Zoöl.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
- noun (Bot.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
- noun (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- noun Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial.
- noun Means of trial.
- noun That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
- noun Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Create a folder named test that contains two files one named. _test.txt and test. txt on OSX and copy to an SMB share on W2k3.
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Posted Yesterday, 11: 26 pm possible debugging - var test = "imageurl" + TLSTimeInSeconds; alert ( "Looking for:" +test);
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[test] writeable = yes force user = test force group = test path =/test write list = test @test
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Class - goodmorning mr. jonas Joe - * holds up a stack of papers* were gonna start today with a science test Class - * all groan* Joe - oh stop it, its not that hard * hands out the tests* remember, if u have any questions, raise ur hands. you have 45 minutes to do this, so enjoy * sits at his desk/looks at nick* Nick - * looks up at him/mouths* evil Joe - * mouths back* I love you Nick - * blushes/starts his test* ~Right Before Lunch~ Nick -
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RUN explorer c: \ send {t} {space} this will select the test file, but not always, as there could be more files starting with a t and no i dont want to put a highly unusual character infront of test. txt, like ~test. txt to make it stand out, this is really n gging me other yucky workaround: run cmd,, winwaitactive C: \Windows\system32\cmd. exe send explorer/select, % profile%\my jumplists\kk\edit kk. lnk {enter} sleep 200 winclose C: \Windows\system32\cmd. exe
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I’m arguing that a test whose answer is used to justify an action which causes the failure of the test, is invalid *as a test*.
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I’m arguing that a test whose answer is used to justify an action which causes the failure of the test, is invalid *as a test*.
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Try not to use the word test when describing what will happen.
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Try not to use the word test when describing what will happen.
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Try not to use the word test when describing what will happen.
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