test
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
test (plural tests)
- 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.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (academia) 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.
- 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party![2]:
- It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
- (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
Two sea urchin tests - (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, OCLC 228724395, (please specify the page number):
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
SynonymsEdit
- (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
- (academics: examination): examination, quiz
AntonymsEdit
- (academics: examination): recess
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Azerbaijani: test
- → Catalan: test
- → Czech: test
- → Danish: test
- → Dutch: test
- → Finnish: testi
- → French: test
- → German: Test
- → Hungarian: teszt
- → Italian: test
- → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
- → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
- → Macedonian: тест (test)
- → Norwegian: test
- → Persian: تست (test)
- → Polish: test
- → Portuguese: teste
- → Romanian: test
- → Russian: тест (test)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: test
- → Spanish: test
- → Swedish: test
- → Turkish: test
- → Ukrainian: тест (test)
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
- To challenge.
- 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
- September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address
- Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
- (academics) 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.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist[3], 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.
- (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.
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- to test a solution by litmus paper
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | (to) test | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | test | tested | |
2nd-person singular | test, testest† | tested, testedst† | |
3rd-person singular | tests, testeth† | tested | |
plural | test | ||
subjunctive | test | tested | |
imperative | test | — | |
participles | testing | tested |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- German: testen
TranslationsEdit
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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)
- (obsolete) A witness.
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- 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
VerbEdit
test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
- (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.
Related termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Clipping of testosterone.
NounEdit
test (uncountable)
- (informal, slang, body building) testosterone
Further readingEdit
- test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- test in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
AnagramsEdit
BretonEdit
NounEdit
test
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin testum (“earthenware pot”), from testa (“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanish tiesto.
NounEdit
test m (plural testos)
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
test m (plural tests)
- test (exam or challenge)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “test” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- test in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- test in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test c (singular definite testen, plural indefinite tests)
- A test, assessment or examination.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “test” in Den Danske Ordbog
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: tes
VerbEdit
test
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of testen
- imperative of testen
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.
NounEdit
test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: tessie
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.
NounEdit
test m (plural tests)
- test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement
- (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.
NounEdit
test m (plural tests)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “test”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Of unknown origin.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test (plural testek)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
testé | testeké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
testéi | testekéi |
Possessive forms of test | ||
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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 |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ test in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further readingEdit
- test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English test.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test m (invariable)
LadinEdit
NounEdit
test m (plural [please provide])
LatvianEdit
VerbEdit
test (?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??)
- to beat
- to knock about
- to flog
MalteseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English test, ultimately from Latin testum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test m (plural testijiet)
- test (examination)
- Għamluli test tad-droga.
- They did a drug test on me.
Derived termsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)
- a test
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
test
- imperative of teste
ReferencesEdit
- “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)
- a test
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)
- (uncountable) clay
- (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (test)
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test m inan
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- test in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- test in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
test n (plural teste)
DeclensionEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)
DeclensionEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test m (plural test)
- test
- Synonym: prueba
- multiple-choice test, multiple-choice question
- Synonyms: (Spain) examen tipo test, examen de opción múltiple
Usage notesEdit
The plural form tests is nonstandard.
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “test”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
test c or n
- a test, an examination, a trial
- a test, an attempt, an experiment
DeclensionEdit
Declension of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testet | test | testen |
Genitive | tests | testets | tests | testens |
Declension of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testen | tester | testerna |
Genitive | tests | testens | testers | testernas |
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
test c
- a tuft or lock of hair
DeclensionEdit
Declension of test | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | test | testen | testar | testarna |
Genitive | tests | testens | testars | testarnas |
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)
- test
- An exam consisting of multiple-choice questions with 3, 4 or 5 choices, labeled a through e.
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
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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 |