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See also: Test, TEST, tèst, těst, tęst, țest, and tesť

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

Noun

test (plural tests)

  1. A challenge, trial.
    • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:
      Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
  2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
  4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  5. (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
  6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
  7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
  8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “academics: examination”): recess
Hyponyms
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Hyponyms of test
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: test
  • → Catalan: test
  • → Czech: test
  • → Danish: test
  • → Dutch: test
  • → Finnish: testi
  • → French: test
  • → German: Test
  • → Hungarian: teszt
  • → Italian: test
  • → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
  • → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
  • → Macedonian: тест (test)
  • → Norwegian: test
  • → Persian: تست (test)
  • → Polish: test
  • → Portuguese: teste
  • → Romanian: test
  • → Russian: тест (test)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тест
    Latin script: test
  • → Slovene: test
  • → Spanish: test
  • → Swedish: test
  • → Turkish: test
  • → Ukrainian: тест (test)
Translations

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
    to test the soundness of a principle
    to test the validity of an argument
  4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
  5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
    • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:
      Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems– […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
  6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
    He tested positive for cancer.
    • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development:
      It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.
  7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper
  8. (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
    • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 31:
      Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.
    • 2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)‎performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again:
      I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah
Conjugation
More information infinitive, present tense ...
Conjugation of test
infinitive (to) test
present tense past tense
1st-person singular test tested
2nd-person singular test, testest† tested, testedst†
3rd-person singular tests, testeth† tested
plural test
subjunctive test tested
imperative test —
participles testing tested
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† Archaic or obsolete.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test (plural tests)

  1. (obsolete) A witness.

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Etymology 3

Noun

test (uncountable)

  1. (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.

Further reading

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

test

  1. witness

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin testum (“earthenware pot”), from testa (“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanish tiesto.

Noun

test m (plural testos)

  1. flowerpot
  2. potsherd
Derived terms
  • pixar fora de test

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

  1. test (exam or challenge)
Derived terms
  • tèster

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛst]
  • Hyphenation: test

Noun

test m inan

  1. test
    provést test ― to perform a test

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
singular plural
nominative test testy
genitive testu testů
dative testu testům
accusative test testy
vocative teste testy
locative testu testech
instrumental testem testy
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Declension of test (hard masculine inanimate)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “test”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “test”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “test”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

Noun

test c (singular definite testen, plural indefinite tests)

  1. A test, assessment or examination.

Declension

More information common gender, singular ...
Declension of test
common
gender		 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative test testen test
tests
tester		 testene
testerne
genitive tests testens tests
tests'		 testenes
testernes
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Synonyms

Derived terms

  • teste
  • personlighedstest
  • testresultat
  • testbil

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. test
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Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: tes

Verb

test

  1. inflection of testen:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. a test, an earthen bowl or pot
  2. a test, a cupel (used in smelting)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: tessie

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

  1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement
  2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

  1. a test, a tryout, a review
Derived terms

Further reading

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Italian

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Maltese

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