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English Dictionary: test by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
test
n
  1. trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
    Synonym(s): trial, trial run, test, tryout
  2. any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc; "the test was standardized on a large sample of students"
    Synonym(s): test, mental test, mental testing, psychometric test
  3. a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"
    Synonym(s): examination, exam, test
  4. the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
    Synonym(s): test, trial
  5. the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"
    Synonym(s): test, trial, run
  6. a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
v
  1. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
    Synonym(s): test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
  2. test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; "screen the blood for the HIV virus"
    Synonym(s): screen, test
  3. examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"
    Synonym(s): quiz, test
  4. show a certain characteristic when tested; "He tested positive for HIV"
  5. achieve a certain score or rating on a test; "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"
  6. determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
  7. undergo a test; "She doesn't test well"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Test \Test\, n. [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t[88]t,
      from L. testum an earthen vessel; akin to testa a piece of
      burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for tersta,
      and akin to torrere to patch, terra earth (cf. {Thirst}, and
      {Terrace}), but cf. Zend tasta cup. Cf. {Test} a shell,
      {Testaceous}, {Tester} a covering, a coin, {Testy},
      {T[88]te-[85]-t[88]te}.]
      1. (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious
            metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  
                     Our ingots, tests, and many mo.         --Chaucer.
  
      2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical
            examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's
            assertions to a test. [bd]Bring me to the test.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
      3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
  
                     Each test every light her muse will bear. --Dryden.
  
      4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its
            genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
  
                     Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once
                     the source, and end, and test of art. --Pope.
  
      5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment;
            ground of admission or exclusion.
  
                     Our test excludes your tribe from benefit. --Dryden.
  
      6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
  
                     Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt
                     indifferent writing and the best?      --Dryden.
  
      7. (Chem.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish
            any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as
            the production of some characteristic precipitate; also,
            the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the
            ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a
            white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of
            some soluble barium salt.
  
      {Test act} (Eng. Law), an act of the English Parliament
            prescribing a form of oath and declaration against
            transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and
            military, were formerly obliged to take within six months
            after their admission to office. They were obliged also to
            receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church
            of England. --Blackstone.
  
      {Test object} (Optics), an object which tests the power or
            quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a
            certain degree of excellence in the instrument to
            determine its existence or its peculiar texture or
            markings.
  
      {Test paper}.
            (a) (Chem.) Paper prepared for use in testing for certain
                  substances by being saturated with a reagent which
                  changes color in some specific way when acted upon by
                  those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by
                  acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned
                  brown by alkalies, etc.
            (b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or
                  comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in
                  which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of
                  proving handwriting.
  
      {Test tube}. (Chem.)
            (a) A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for
                  heating solutions and for performing ordinary
                  reactions.
            (b) A graduated tube.
  
      Syn: Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment;
               trial.
  
      Usage: {Test}, {Trial}. Trial is the wider term; test is a
                  searching and decisive trial. It is derived from the
                  Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early
                  applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in which
                  metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the
                  peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or
                  criterion of the most decisive kind.
  
                           I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose
                           trial shall better publish his commediation.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                           Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of
                           fortune, Like purest gold, that tortured in the
                           furnace, Comes out more bright, and brings forth
                           all its weight.                           --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Test \Test\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tested}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Testing}.]
      1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or
            cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  
      2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or
            quality of by experiment, or by some principle or
            standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a
            principle; to test the validity of an argument.
  
                     Experience is the surest standard by which to test
                     the real tendency of the existing constitution.
                                                                              --Washington.
  
      3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent;
            as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Test \Test\, n. [L. testis. Cf. {Testament}, {Testify}.]
      A witness. [Obs.]
  
               Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the
               more surety tests of that deed.               --Ld. Berners.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Test \Test\, v. i. [L. testari. See {Testament}.]
      To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Test \Test\, d8Testa \[d8]Tes"ta\, n.; pl. E. {Tests}, L.
      {Test[91]}. [L. testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece
      of earthenware, a shell. See {Test} a cupel.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) The external hard or firm covering of many
            invertebrate animals.
  
      Note: The test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely
               of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of
               calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.
  
      2. (Bot.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or
            spermoderm.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   test n.   1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to
   get thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and
   followup of the results.   2. Some bored random user trying a couple
   of the simpler features with a developer looking over his or her
   shoulder, ready to pounce on mistakes.   Judging by the quality of
   most software, the second definition is far more prevalent.   See
   also {demo}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   test
  
      The process of exercising a product to identify
      differences between expected and actual behaviour.   Typically
      testing is bottom-up: {unit testing} and {integration testing}
      by developers, {system testing} by testers, and {user
      acceptance testing} by users.
  
      {Test coverage} attempts to assess how complete a test has
      been.
  
      2. The second stage in a {generate and test} search
      {algorithm}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (2003-09-24)
  
  
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