Test

Quick meaning: Test is a noun meaning A challenge, trial.

Meaning

A challenge, trial.

More Meanings

1. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
3. (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
4. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
5. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
6. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
7. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Example Sentences

to test the validity of an argument

to test the soundness of a principle

Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Word Forms

• tests
• testing
• tested
• testest
• testedst
• testeth

Synonyms for test

Depending on context, synonyms include examination, quiz, challenge, mountain, trial, assay.

Antonyms for test

Common opposites include recess, breeze, cakewalk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include try out, examine, trial, experimental, examination, prove.

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