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If your boss tells you not to test her patience, she means don't push her today, because she might just snap.

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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Noun
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"

Noun
the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

Noun
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"

Noun
a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

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trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"

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Noun
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"

Verb
undergo a test; "She doesn''t test well"

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examine someone''s knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

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determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

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achieve a certain score or rating on a test; "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"

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put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"

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test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; "screen the blood for the HIV virus"

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show a certain characteristic when tested; "He tested positive for HIV"

n.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

n.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

n.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

n.
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

n.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

n.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

n.
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.

v. t.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

n.
A witness.

v. i.
To make a testament, or will.

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Alt. of Testa

Test

Test , n. [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t'88t, 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'88te-'85-t'88te.] 1. (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots, tests, and many mo.
2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. "Bring me to the test." Shak. 3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Each test every light her muse will bear.
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.
5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
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. -- 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.
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.

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.
3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

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.

Test

Test, v. i. [L. testari. See Testament.] To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

To make a testament, or will.

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Usage Examples

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

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Other Usage Examples

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.