assay
assay is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Trial; attempt; essay. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Trial; attempt; essay.
- noun. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
- noun. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- noun. Tested purity or value.
- noun. The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- noun. The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- verb. To try; to attempt; to apply.
- verb. To affect.
- verb. To try tasting, as food or drink.
- verb. To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.
- intransitive verb. To attempt, try, or endeavor.
- noun. a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.
- noun. an appraisal of the state of affairs
"they made an assay of the contents"
"a check on its dependability under stress"
- noun. a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance
- noun. a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components
- verb. analyze (chemical substances)
- verb. make an effort or attempt
"He tried to shake off his fears"
"The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"
Synonyms
check, attempt, essay, seek, try
Common word forms
assays, assayed, assayer, assaying, assayable
Words from these letters
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