test
/tɛst/
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test noun: a challenge, trial. Also the clipping of testosterone.
Noun (1)
test (plural tests)
- A challenge, trial.
- 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 Apr 2012, page 168
- An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!
- A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items.
- aptitude test
- Test Theory
- A Test match.
- The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- Testa; seed coat.
- Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- 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, →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
Verb (1)
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
- To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
- 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
- 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.
- 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 Apr 2013, page 200
- To be shown to be by test.
- He tested positive for cancer.
- 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
- To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- to test a solution by litmus paper
- To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you...2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 31
- I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Noun (2)
test (plural tests)
- A witness.
- 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 (2)
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
Noun (3) capitalized: TEST
TEST (plural TESTs)
Noun (4) capitalized: TEST
TEST (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of testosterone.
Noun (5) capitalized: Test
Test (plural Tests)
- A Test match.
Proper noun capitalized: Test
Test
- A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton.
Also used as
test is also the clipping of testosterone.
test meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
test in Hindi
- challenge, trial
- चुनौती cunautī
- academics: examination
- परीक्षा parīkṣā, परख parakh, इम्तहान imtahān
- product examination
- आज़माइश āzmāiś, इम्तहान imtahān, प्रयोग prayog, परीक्षा parīkṣā
- to challenge
- परखना parakhnā
test in Tamil
- சோதனை, பரிசோதனை, சோதனை செய்ய
test in Marathi
- cricket: test game
- कसोटी kasoṭī
test in Urdu
- academics: examination
- اِمْتِحان imtihān
- product examination
- آزْمَائِش āzmāiś, اِمْتِحان imtihān
More languagesFewer languages
- test in Bengali
- পরীক্ষা porikkha, ইমতেহান imtehan
- test in Telugu
- పరీక్ష parīkṣa
- test in Malayalam
- പരീക്ഷ parīkṣa, പരിശോധന pariśōdhana, ടെസ്റ്റ് ṭesṟṟŭ, പരീക്ഷിക്കുക parīkṣikkuka
- test in Kannada
- ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ, ಪರೀಕ್ಷಿಸಲು
- test in Punjabi
- ਟੈਸਟ
- test in Gujarati
- પરીક્ષણ, ટેસ્ટ, કસોટી
- test in Odia
- ପରୀକ୍ଷା, ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରନ୍ତୁ, ପରୀକ୍ଷଣ
- test in Sanskrit
- परीक्षा parīkṣā
- test in Nepali
- परीक्षण, परीक्षण गर्ने
- test in Pashto
- امتحان emtehān, ازمېیښت azmeyǝ́x̌t, ازمويښت azmoyǝ́x̌t
- test in Tagalog
- pagsusulit, subok, subukin
- test in Arabic
- اِخْتِبَار iḵtibār, تَجْرِبَة tajriba, اِمْتِحَان imtiḥān, اِمْتَحَنَ imtaḥana
- test in Malay
- ujian, peperiksaan, menguji
- test in Indonesian
- tes, ujian
- test in Thai
- สอบ sɔ̀ɔp, การสอบ gaan-sɔ̀ɔp, การทดลอง gaan-tót-lɔɔng
- test in Vietnamese
- sự thử thách, bài thi, khảo thí, phép kiểm thử
- test in Myanmar
- အစမ်း a.cam:, စာမေးပွဲ came:pwai:
Examples of test in a sentence
- I was so happy to get an A on that test.
- The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.
- The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.
Synonyms of test
Antonyms
Forms of test
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tests |
| plural | TESTs |
| plural | Tests |
| alternative form | test |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tests |
| present participle | testing |
| past participle | tested |
| past | tested |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | testest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | testedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | testeth |
Origin of test
From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“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. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense: the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge. Displaced Old English afandung.
From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
The river is first attested 877 as Terstan. The name is of Brythonic origin, possibly related to Welsh trais (“violence, battle”).
Words formed from test
- timeless Test
- Test Valley
- A/B test
- Abel test
- acceptance test
- aftertest
- air puff test
- alcotest
- alpha test
- alternating series test
- B3B-test
- ball-on-three-balls test
- Becchi's test
- Bechdel test
- beep test
- Beilstein test
- bench test
- beta test
- black building test
- bleeding time test
- bleep test
- blind test
- Blockburger test
- blot test
- borax bead test
- Bourne test
- brake test
- breath test
- brown bag test
- brown paper bag test
- burrito test
- central location test
- Charpy impact test
- chi-square test
- comb test
- Coombs test
- Cooper test
- copy test
- crash test
- crash test dummy
- cricket test
- day-after recall test
- device under test
- Dick test
- diehard test
- dielectric withstand test
- Dix-Hallpike test
- DNA test
- double-blind test
- Draize test
- driving test
- drug test
- DUT
- elk test
- emissions test
- ESDA test
- eye test
- field sobriety test
- final test
- flash test
Phrases with test
- t test
- bus test
- hit test
- mom test
- MOT test
- oil test
- pap test
- pen test
- pub test
- RAT test
- test bed
- test out
155 more phrasesFewer phrases
- test pit
- test run
- acid test
- Ames test
- duck test
- fuzz test
- hall test
- Heaf test
- Izod test
- KPSS test
- nose test
- road test
- shit test
- Sims test
- soak test
- soap test
- spot test
- test beds
- test card
- test case
- test mule
- test outs
- test pits
- test runs
- Test side
- test site
- test tube
- time test
- tine test
- unit test
- Wada test
- Wald test
- blood test
- field test
- flame test
- flood test
- Howey test
- Knoop test
- laugh test
- Lemon test
- level test
- means test
- moose test
- Palko test
- patch test
- prick test
- Rinne test
- smear test
- smell test
- smoke test
- sniff test
- Sobel test
- spark test
- split test
- taste test
- test bench
- test cards
- test cases
- test cross
- test depth
- test drive
- test drove
- test dummy
- test match
- test mules
- test paper
- test pilot
- Test sides
- test sites
- test suite
- test track
- test tubes
- trade test
- Weber test
- Widal test
- ACCESS test
- Charpy test
- finger test
- giggle test
- Griess test
- Hinton test
- Huhner test
- Hühner test
- litmus test
- Miller test
- mirror test
- Mullen test
- pencil test
- purity test
- rabbit test
- Rogers test
- saliva test
- sanity test
- Schick test
- Schiff test
- screen test
- shovel test
- stress test
- Stroop test
- Szondi test
- Tebbit test
- test depths
- test double
- test driven
- test drives
- test firing
- test flight
- Test nation
- test papers
- test pilots
- test suites
- test tracks
- Thomas test
- triple test
- Trojan test
- Turing test
- Eggertz test
- Grubbs' test
- Guthrie test
- hearing test
- hotfire test
- inkblot test
- Lachman test
- Lüscher test
- Mantoux test
- nerdity test
- nuclear test
- Proth's test
- quinine test
- Snellen test
- test benches
- Test cricket
- test crosses
- test doubles
- test driving
- test firings
- test flights
- test harness
- Test matches
- Test nations
- test of time
- test pattern
- test portion
- Tukey's test
- whisper test
- Winkler test
- binomial test
- elephant test
- fluorine test
- Friedman test
- hot iron test
- Ishihara test
- Lagrange test
- Murphy's test
- paraffin test
Words that rhyme with test
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about test
- What does test mean?
- Test means a challenge, trial.
- What is test in Hindi?
- Test in Hindi is चुनौती (cunautī), परीक्षा (parīkṣā), इम्तहान (imtahān). See Test meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is test?
- Test can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce test?
- Test is pronounced /tɛst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of test?
- The plural of test is tests.
Words near test in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: test (page history and authors); TEST (page history and authors); Test (page history and authors); test (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); test (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); test (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); test (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); test (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); test (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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