tester
See also: Tester
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English tester, from Old French testre, from Latin testura.
Noun edit
tester (plural testers)
- A canopy over a bed.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, volume III, page 13:
- And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
- Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
- 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Moby Dick:
- With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.
Translations edit
canopy — see canopy
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English tester, equivalent to test + -er.
Noun edit
tester (plural testers)
- A person who administers a test.
- A device used for testing.
- (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.[1]
- A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
- A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
- (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.
Synonyms edit
- (punishment) Botany Bay dozen
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
a person administering a test
Etymology 3 edit
For testern, teston, from French teston, from Old French teste (“the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin”). See tester (“a covering”), and compare testone, testoon.
Noun edit
tester (plural testers)
- An old French silver coin.
- (British, slang, dated) A sixpence.
- 1602, S[amuel] R[owlands], “How a Citizen was Serued by a Curtizan”, in Greenes Ghost Havnting Conie-catchers. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short?] for R[oger] Iackson, and I. North, […], →OCLC; republished in The Complete Works of Samuel Rowlands: 1598–1628: Now First Collected, volume I, [Glasgow]: Printed [by R. Anderson] for the Hunterian Club, 1880, →OCLC, page 42:
- When after their beaſtly ſport and pleaſure Mounſieur Libid[inoſo] heat of luſt was ſomewhat aſſwaged, and ready to goe, féeling his pocket for a venereall remuneration [i.e., a copper coin] finds nothing but a Teſter, or at leaſt ſo little, that it was not ſufficient to pleaſe dame Pleaſure for her hire. [...] My Ladie would not beléeue Monſ. Libid. a great while, but ſearched and féeled for more coine, [...]
Etymology 4 edit
Inherited from Middle English tester; see testiere.
Noun edit
tester (plural testers)
- Alternative form of testiere (“armor for a horse's head”)
- 2009 January 1, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 275:
- A horse-head tester had cutouts for the animal's eyes and ears. A peytral protected the horse's breast, while the crinet, made of overlapping steel plates joined by leather straps or rivets, protected its neck.
- 2003, Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament in England, 1100-1400, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 175:
- The tester and crupper, together with the piser, which probably protected the chest, formed the basis of most horse armour […]
References edit
- ^ 1987, Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1996, paperback, →ISBN, Chapter 12.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Verb edit
tester
Noun edit
tester
- a tester; someone who tests
- an instrument used for testing
- a product sample
Declension edit
Declension of tester
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tester | testeren | testere | testerene |
| genitive | testers | testerens | testeres | testerenes |
References edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
tester
- to test
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of tester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tester | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | testant /tɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | testé /tɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | teste /tɛst/ |
testes /tɛst/ |
teste /tɛst/ |
testons /tɛs.tɔ̃/ |
testez /tɛs.te/ |
testent /tɛst/ |
| imperfect | testais /tɛs.tɛ/ |
testais /tɛs.tɛ/ |
testait /tɛs.tɛ/ |
testions /tɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
testiez /tɛs.tje/ |
testaient /tɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | testai /tɛs.te/ |
testas /tɛs.ta/ |
testa /tɛs.ta/ |
testâmes /tɛs.tam/ |
testâtes /tɛs.tat/ |
testèrent /tɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | testerai /tɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
testeras /tɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
testera /tɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
testerons /tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
testerez /tɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
testeront /tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | testerais /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
testerais /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
testerait /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
testerions /tɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
testeriez /tɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
testeraient /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | teste /tɛst/ |
testes /tɛst/ |
teste /tɛst/ |
testions /tɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
testiez /tɛs.tje/ |
testent /tɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | testasse /tɛs.tas/ |
testasses /tɛs.tas/ |
testât /tɛs.ta/ |
testassions /tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
testassiez /tɛs.ta.sje/ |
testassent /tɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | teste /tɛst/ |
— | testons /tɛs.tɔ̃/ |
testez /tɛs.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
tester
Further reading edit
- “tester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
tester
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
tester m
- indefinite plural of test
Verb edit
tester
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tester m inan (related adjective testerski)
- tester (device that tests something)
- (cosmetics) tester (free sample bottle of perfume or cosmetic available in a shop for customers to try)
- (cosmetics) tester (small phial of perfume or cosmetic bought to try a fragrance without the commitment of a full-size bottle)
- Synonym: sampler
Declension edit
Declension of tester
Noun edit
tester m pers (female equivalent testerka)
- tester (person on whom drugs or cosmetics are tested)
Declension edit
Declension of tester
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English tester.
Noun edit
tester n (plural testere)
Declension edit
Declension of tester
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) tester | testerul | (niște) testere | testerele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) tester | testerului | (unor) testere | testerelor |
| vocative | testerule | testerelor | ||
Swedish edit
Noun edit
tester
- indefinite plural of test