Dictionary Entry
test
test is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- 2noun
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
- 3noun
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
- 4noun
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
- 5noun
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
- 6noun
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- 7noun
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.
- 8transitive verb
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- 9transitive verb
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.
- 10transitive verb
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
- 11noun
A witness.
- 12intransitive verb
To make a testament, or will.
- 13noun
Alt. of Testa
- 14noun
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"
- 15noun
the act of undergoing testing
"he survived the great test of battle"
"candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
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- 16noun
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"
- 17noun
a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
- 18noun
trying something to find out about it
"a sample for ten days free trial"
"a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
- 19noun
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"
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- 20verb
undergo a test
"She doesn't test well"
- 21verb
examine someone's knowledge of something
"The teacher tests us every week"
"We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"
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- 22verb
determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- 23verb
achieve a certain score or rating on a test
"She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"
- 24verb
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
"This approach has been tried with good results"
"Test this recipe"
- 25verb
test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
"screen the blood for the HIV virus"
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- 26verb
show a certain characteristic when tested
"He tested positive for HIV"
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