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test driving

test driving is the present participle and gerund of test drive.

Meaning of test drive

Verb

test drive (third-person singular simple present test drives, present participle test driving, simple past test drove, past participle test driven)

  1. (transitive) To take a motor vehicle on the road to assess its quality before purchase.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To establish a preliminary assessment of something through its use.
    Synonyms:
    test-ride

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Questions about test driving

What is test driving the present participle and gerund of?
Test driving is the present participle and gerund of test drive.

Words near test driving in the dictionary

  1. test double
  2. test doubles
  3. test drive
  4. test driven
  5. test drives
  6. test driving
  7. test drove
  8. test dummy
  9. test firing
  10. test firings
  11. test flight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: test driving (page history and authors); test drive (page history and authors). 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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