test

See also: Test, TEST, and țest

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

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

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French test (“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.

   Synonyms: challenge, trial

   Antonyms: breeze, cakewalk

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.

   Synonyms: quiz, examination

   Antonyms: recess

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?

HyponymsEdit

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Hyponyms of test

• acid test
• babysitter test
• blood test
• duck test
• field test
• flame test

• inkblot test
• litmus test
• multiple-choice test
• nose test
• Rorschach test

• single-choice test
• smell test
• smoke test
• sniff test
• stress test

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from test

• test case
• test drive

• tester
• test flight

• test run
• test tube

DescendantsEdit

• German: Test
• Dutch: test

TranslationsEdit

challenge, trial

• Albanian: provë (sq) (indefinite), prova (definite)
• Arabic: اِخْتِبَار‏‎ m (iḵtibār)
• Asturian: prueba f
• Catalan: prova (ca) f, test (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試驗 (zh), 试验 (zh) (shìyàn)

• Czech: test (cs) m, zkouška (cs) f
• Dutch: test (nl) m, proef (nl) m
• Esperanto: provi
• Finnish: koe (fi), koetus (fi)
• French: épreuve (fr) f
• Friulian: prove f
• German: Probe (de) f
• Greek: δοκιμασία (el) f (dokimasía), δοκιμή (el) f (dokimí)
• Hebrew: מִבְחָן‏‎ (he) m (mivkhán)
• Hindi: चुनौती (hi) f (cunautī)
• Hungarian: próba (hu)
• Italian: prova (it), verifica (it)
• Japanese: 実験 (ja) (じっけん, jikken), 試練 (しれん, shiren)
• Korean: 검사 (ko) (geomsa)
• Ladin: proa f

• Luxembourgish: Prouf f
• Malay: ujian
• Persian: آزمایش‏‎ (fa) (âzmâyeš)
• Portuguese: prova (pt) f, teste (pt)
• Romanian: probă (ro) f
• Russian: про́ба (ru) f (próba), тест (ru) m (tɛst), испыта́ние (ru) n (ispytánije)
• Sardinian: proa f, proba, prova
• Scottish Gaelic: dearbhadh m, feuchainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тест m

  Roman: test (sh) m

• Sicilian: prova f
• Slovene: preizkus m, preizkušnja f
• Spanish: prueba (es) f
• Swahili: jaribio (sw)
• Swedish: prov (sv) n, prövning (sv) c
• Turkish: test (tr), deneme (tr)
• Ukrainian: тест (test), випробування (vyprobuvannja)
• Venetian: prova f
• Zazaki: cerbnayen, test kerden
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

academics: examination

• Albanian: provim (sq) (indefinite), provimi (definite)
• Arabic: اِمْتِحَان‏‎ (ar) m (imtiḥān), اِخْتِبَار‏‎ m (iḵtibār)
• Catalan: examen (ca) m, prova (ca) f, test (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 考試, 考试 (haau² si⁵)

  Mandarin: 考試 (zh), 考试 (zh) (kǎoshì)

• Czech: zkouška (cs) f
• Dutch: examen (nl) n, test (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekzameno
• Finnish: koe (fi), tentti (fi)
• French: test (fr) m, examen (fr) m
• German: Examen (de) n, Prüfung (de) f
• Greek: διαγώνισμα (el) n (diagónisma)
• Hebrew: מִבְחָן‏‎ (he) m (mivkhán)
• Hindi: परीक्षा (hi) m (parīkṣā)
• Hungarian: vizsga (hu)
• Irish: scrúdú m
• Italian: esame (it) m
• Japanese: 試験 (ja) (しけん, shiken), テスト (ja) (tesuto)
• Korean: 시험 (ko) (siheom) (試驗 (ko)), 테스트 (ko) (teseuteu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: تاقیکردنه‌وه‌‏‎

• Malay: ujian
• Persian: آزمایش‏‎ (fa) (âzmâyeš), تست‏‎ (fa) (test)
• Polish: sprawdzian (pl) m
• Portuguese: exame (pt) m, teste (pt) m
• Romanian: examen (ro) n
• Russian: экза́мен (ru) m (ekzámen), тест (ru) m (tɛst), контро́льная рабо́та f (kontrólʹnaja rabóta) (control work)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuchainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тест m

  Roman: test (sh) m

• Sicilian: esami (scn) f
• Slovene: test m
• Spanish: examen (es) m, test (es) m
• Swahili: jaribio (sw)
• Swedish: prov (sv) n, tentamen (sv) c, tenta (sv) c, dugga (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsusulit, subok
• Telugu: పరీక్ష (te) (parīkṣa)
• Thai: สอบ (th) (sɔ̀ɔp)
• Turkish: sınav (tr), test (tr)
• Ukrainian: екзамен (ekzamen), тест (test)
• Vietnamese: thi (vi), kiểm tra (vi)

product examination

• Catalan: test (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 測試 (zh), 测试 (zh) (cèshì), 檢查 (zh), 检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá)

• Czech: test (cs) m
• Dutch: test (nl) m
• Finnish: testi (fi), käyttökoe
• French: test (fr) m
• German: Test (de), Prüfung (de) f
• Greek: εξέταση (el) f (exétasi)
• Hungarian: teszt (hu), vizsgálat (hu)
• Irish: tástáil f
• Japanese: 検査 (ja) (けんさ, kensa), テスト (ja) (tesuto)
• Korean: 테스트 (ko) (teseuteu)
• Malay: ujian

• Polish: sprawdzian (pl) m, test (pl) m
• Portuguese: teste (pt) m
• Romanian: probă (ro) f, test (ro) n
• Russian: тест (ru) m (tɛst), испыта́ние (ru) n (ispytánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: dearbhadh m, feuchainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тест m

  Roman: test (sh) m

• Slovene: test m
• Spanish: prueba (es) f, test (es) m
• Swahili: jaribio (sw)
• Swedish: test (sv) n, provning c, prov (sv) c
• Telugu: పరీక్ష (te) (parīkṣa)

cricket: test game

• Swahili: jaribio (sw), majaribio (sw)

external calciferous shell

• Finnish: kuori (fi)

• Swahili: majaribio (sw)

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

DescendantsEdit

• German: testen

TranslationsEdit

to challenge

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 測試 (zh), 测试 (zh) (cèshì)

• Finnish: testata (fi), koestaa, haastaa (fi)
• French: tester (fr), mettre à l'épreuve (fr)
• Greek: δοκιμάζω (el) (dokimázo)
• Hungarian: kihív (hu)
• Italian: testare (it), mettere alla prova
• Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu)

• Malay: menguji
• Portuguese: testar (pt)
• Russian: испы́тывать (ru) impf (ispýtyvatʹ), испыта́ть (ru) pf (ispytátʹ), тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch
• Slovene: preizkusiti
• Spanish: probar (es), testear (es)
• Swahili: majaribio (sw)
• Ukrainian: випробовувати (vyprobovuvaty), тестувати (testuvaty)

to administer an examination during the academic term

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 測驗 (zh), 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), 考驗 (zh), 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn)

• Finnish: järjestää (fi) tentti (fi)
• French: tester (fr)
• Greek: εξετάζω (el) (exetázo)
• Hungarian: vizsgázik, vizsgáztat

• Japanese: テストする (ja) (tesuto suru)
• Latin: specto (la)
• Russian: тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch
• Swahili: majaribio (sw)
• Tagalog: subukin

to place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions

• Catalan: provar (ca)
• Czech: testovat (cs)
• Finnish: testata (fi)
• French: tester (fr)
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: δοκιμάζω (el) (dokimázo), θέτω υπό δοκιμασία (théto ypó dokimasía)
• Hungarian: tesztel (hu), vizsgál (hu)

• Irish: tástáil f
• Italian: testare (it)
• Portuguese: testar (pt)
• Russian: тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ)
• Slovene: testirati, preizkusiti
• Spanish: examinar (es), probar (es), testear (es)
• Swahili: majaribio (sw)

to be shown to be by test

• Finnish: testata (fi)

• Swahili: majaribio (sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} provoj
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} اِخْتَبَرَ‏‎ (iḵtabara)
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} provar (ca)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} test (nl), ^{(please verify)} testen (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} testen (de)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} coba (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} esaminare (it), ^{(please verify)} provare (it), ^{(please verify)} valutare (it), ^{(please verify)} verificare (it)
• Mandarin:

  Simplified: 测试 (cèshì), 测验 (cèyàn), 考验 (kǎoyàn), 化验 (huàyàn)

  Traditional: 測試 (cèshì), 測驗 (cèyàn), 考驗 (kǎoyàn), 化驗 (huàyàn)

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} å teste, ^{(please verify)} tester, ^{(please verify)} testet, ^{(please verify)} har testet
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} examinar (es), ^{(please verify)} probar (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} utmana (sv), ^{(please verify)} testa (sv)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పరీక్షించు (te) (parīkṣiṃcu)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ทดสอบ
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} thi (vi)

Etymology 2Edit

From Old French tester, from Latin testari (“bear witness, testify”), from 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) To make a testament, or will.

Related termsEdit

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Further readingEdit

• test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• test in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• TETS, TETs, sett, stet, tets

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BretonEdit

NounEdit

test

1. witness

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

test m

1. test

DeclensionEdit

Declension of test

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

Derived termsEdit

• testovat
• testovací
• testový

Further readingEdit

• test in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• test in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

• Audio

  (file)

EtymologyEdit

From English test.

NounEdit

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

1. test

SynonymsEdit

• experiment
• proef

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French, from Latin testa.

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

From English test, itself from Old French

NounEdit

test m (plural tests)

1. a test, a tryout, a review

Derived termsEdit

• tester

Further readingEdit

• “test” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Of unknown origin.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛʃt]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: test

NounEdit

test (plural testek)

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

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

Derived termsEdit

• testes
• testi
• testű

(Compound words):

• forgástest
• holttest
• testalkat
• testápolás
• testépítés
• testnevelés
• testőr
• testvér

(Expressions):

• a lélek kész, de a test erőtlen
• arkhimédészi test
• platóni test
• testre szab

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English test.

NounEdit

test m (invariable)

1. test

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LadinEdit

NounEdit

test m (plural [please provide])

1. text

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LatvianEdit

VerbEdit

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

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

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English test

NounEdit

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

1. a test

Related termsEdit

• teste

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

test

1. imperative of teste

ReferencesEdit

• “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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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

ReferencesEdit

• “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

• English: test (borrowed)

ReferencesEdit

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (test)

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

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

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /têst/

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

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

test m (plural tests)

1. test

SynonymsEdit

• prueba

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

test c, 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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	test	testen	testar	testarna
Genitive	tests	testens	testars	testarnas

Related termsEdit

• betatest
• hårtest
• testa

SynonymsEdit

• examen
• försök
• experiment
• prov
• skrivning
• tofs
• tuss

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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

declension of test

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	test	testler
definite accusative (belirtme)	testi	testleri
dative (yönelme)	teste	testlere
locative (bulunma)	testte	testlerde
ablative (ayrılma)	testten	testlerden
genitive (tamlayan)	testin	testlerin

possessive forms of test

benim (my)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	testim	testlerim
definite accusative (belirtme)	testimi	testlerimi
dative (yönelme)	testime	testlerime
locative (bulunma)	testimde	testlerimde
ablative (çıkma)	testimden	testlerimden
genitive (tamlayan)	testimin	testlerimin
senin (your)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	testin	testlerin
definite accusative (belirtme)	testini	testlerini
dative (yönelme)	testine	testlerine
locative (bulunma)	testinde	testlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	testinden	testlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	testinin	testlerinin
onun (her/his/its)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	testi	testleri
definite accusative (belirtme)	testini	testlerini
dative (yönelme)	testine	testlerine
locative (bulunma)	testinde	testlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	testinden	testlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	testinin	testlerinin
bizim (our)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	testimiz	testlerimiz
definite accusative (belirtme)	testimizi	testlerimizi
dative (yönelme)	testimize	testlerimize
locative (bulunma)	testimizde	testlerimizde
ablative (çıkma)	testimizden	testlerimizden
genitive (tamlayan)	testimizin	testlerimizin
sizin (your)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	testiniz	testleriniz
definite accusative (belirtme)	testinizi	testlerinizi
dative (yönelme)	testinize	testlerinize
locative (bulunma)	testinizde	testlerinizde
ablative (çıkma)	testinizden	testlerinizden
genitive (tamlayan)	testinizin	testlerinizin
onların (their)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	testleri	testleri
definite accusative (belirtme)	testlerini	testlerini
dative (yönelme)	testlerine	testlerine
locative (bulunma)	testlerinde	testlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	testlerinden	testlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	testlerinin	testlerinin

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from test

• testle
• testli

• testse
• testsiz

• testçi
• testçik

• testçilik