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test

See also: Test, TEST, țest, and tesť

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • (South African) IPA(key): /test/

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English test, teste, borrowed 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.

NounEdit

test (plural tests)

  1. A challenge, trial.
    • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 2, page 168:
      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.
  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 or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  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.
    • Dryden
      Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
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AntonymsEdit
  • (academics: examination): recess
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VerbEdit

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. To challenge.
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  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.
    to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument
    • Washington
      Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
  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.
    • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
      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.
  6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
    He tested positive for cancer.
    • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, ‎Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development
      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.
  7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

NounEdit

test (plural tests)

  1. (obsolete) A witness.
    • Ld. Berners
      Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

VerbEdit

test (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.
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Etymology 3Edit

Clipping of testosterone.

NounEdit

test (uncountable)

  1. (informal, slang, body building) testosterone

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

BretonEdit

NounEdit

test

  1. witness

CzechEdit

NounEdit

test m

  1. test

DeclensionEdit

Declension
singular plural
nominative test testy
genitive testu testů
dative testu testům
accusative test testy
vocative teste testy
locative testu testech
instrumental testem testy

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Further readingEdit

DanishEdit

NounEdit

test

  1. test

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English test.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. test

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French test, from Latin testa. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

NounEdit

test m (plural tests)

  1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English test, itself from Old French test.

NounEdit

test m (plural tests)

  1. a test, a tryout, a review
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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Of unknown origin.[1]

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃt]
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  • Hyphenation: test

NounEdit

test (plural testek)

  1. (anatomy) body
  2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
  3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)
 
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DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative test testek
accusative testet testeket
dative testnek testeknek
instrumental testtel testekkel
causal-final testért testekért
translative testté testekké
terminative testig testekig
essive-formal testként testekként
essive-modal — —
inessive testben testekben
superessive testen testeken
adessive testnél testeknél
illative testbe testekbe
sublative testre testekre
allative testhez testekhez
elative testből testekből
delative testről testekről
ablative testtől testektől
Possessive forms of test
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. testem testeim
2nd person sing. tested testeid
3rd person sing. teste testei
1st person plural testünk testeink
2nd person plural testetek testeitek
3rd person plural testük testeik

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Compound words
Expressions

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English test.

NounEdit

test m (invariable)

  1. test

LadinEdit

NounEdit

test m (plural [please provide])

  1. text

LatvianEdit

VerbEdit

test ?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??

  1. to beat
  2. to knock about
  3. to flog

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English test

NounEdit

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

  1. a test
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Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

test

  1. imperative of teste

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English test

NounEdit

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

  1. a test

Derived termsEdit

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Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin testum.

NounEdit

test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

  1. (uncountable) clay
  2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

DescendantsEdit

  • French: test
  • French: têt
  • → Middle English: test
    • English: test (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: test
  • → Middle High German: test

ReferencesEdit

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (test)

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

test m inan

  1. test

DeclensionEdit

declension of test
singular plural
nominative test testy
genitive testu testów
dative testowi testom
accusative test testy
instrumental testem testami
locative teście testach
vocative teście testy

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)

  1. test (challenge, trial)
  2. test (academics)
  3. test (product examination)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of test
singular plural
nominative tȅst tèstovi
genitive testa testova
dative testu testovima
accusative test testove
vocative teste testovi
locative testu testovima
instrumental testom testovima

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

test m (plural tests)

  1. test

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

test c or n

  1. a test, an examination, a trial
  2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
  3. a piece of hair c

DeclensionEdit

Declension of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testet test testen
Genitive tests testets tests testens
Declension of test 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testen tester testerna
Genitive tests testens testers testernas
Declension of test 3
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative test testen testar testarna
Genitive tests testens testars testarnas

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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English test.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): ˈtest
  • Hyphenation: test

NounEdit

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

  1. test

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative test
Definite accusative testi
Singular Plural
Nominative test testler
Definite accusative testi testleri
Dative teste testlere
Locative testte testlerde
Ablative testten testlerden
Genitive testin testlerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular testim testlerim
2nd singular testin testlerin
3rd singular testi testleri
1st plural testimiz testlerimiz
2nd plural testiniz testleriniz
3rd plural testleri testleri

Derived termsEdit

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