tests

noun

A challenge, trial.

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.

(cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.

(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.

(botany) Testa; seed coat.

(cricket) A Test match.

A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton.

(informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone. [(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.]

Abbreviation of testosterone. [(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.]

Acronym of Treadmill Exercise Stress Test.

(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

(obsolete) A witness.

verb

To challenge, to put a strain on (something).

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.

(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.

(copulative) To be shown to be by test.

(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

(intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.

(obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

(obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Roots

testumtest- · Latin · earthen pot

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