[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

test \test\, n. oe. test test, or cupel, potsherd, f. t^et,
   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^ete-`a-t^ete.
   1. metal. a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious
      metals are melted for trial and refinement.
      1913 webster

            our ingots, tests, and many mo.       --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
      1913 webster

            each test every light her muse will bear. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. that with which anything is compared for proof of its
      genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
      1913 webster

            life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
            at once the source, and end, and test of art.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   5. discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment;
      ground of admission or exclusion.
      1913 webster

            our test excludes your tribe from benefit. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   6. judgment; distinction; discrimination.
      1913 webster

            who would excel, when few can make a test
            betwixt indifferent writing and the best? --dryden.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   8. a set of questions to be answered or problems to be
      solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge,
      aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings,
      synonymous with examination or exam; as, an
      intelligence test. also used attributively; as a test
      score, test results.
      pjc

   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.
          1913 webster

   syn: criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment;
        trial.

   usage: 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.
          1913 webster

                i leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose
                trial shall better publish his commediation.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster

                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.                           --addison.
          1913 webster
see also:
thirst terrace test testaceous tester testy 
t^ete-`a-t^ete examination exam test act test object 
test paper test tube trial 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

test \test\, v. i. l. testari. see testament.
   to make a testament, or will. obs.
   1913 webster test
see also:
testament 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

test \test\, testa \tes"ta\, n.; pl. e. tests, l. testae.
   l. testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of
   earthenware, a shell. see test a cupel.
   1. zool. the external hard or firm covering of many
      invertebrate animals.
      1913 webster

   note: the test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely
         of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of
         calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.
         1913 webster

   2. bot. the outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or
      spermoderm.
      1913 webster
see also:
tests testae test 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            experience is the surest standard by which to test
            the real tendency of the existing constitution.
                                                  --washington.
      1913 webster

   3. chem. to examine or try, as by the use of some reagent;
      as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
      1913 webster

   4. to administer a test8 to someone for the purpose of
      ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in
      academic settings, to determine how well a student has
      learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.
      pjc
      1913 webster
see also:
tested testing 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

test \test\, n. l. testis. cf. testament, testify.
   a witness. obs.
   1913 webster

         prelates and great lords of england, who were for the
         more surety tests of that deed.          --ld. berners.
   1913 webster
see also:
testament testify 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

test
     n 1: 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" syn: mental test, mental testing, psychometric
          test
     2: 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" syn: trial, run
     3: the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test
        of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
        syn: trial
     4: trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten
        days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to
        relieve the pain" syn: trial, trial run, tryout
     5: 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" syn: examination, exam
     6: a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
     v 1: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental
          use to; "this approach has been tried with good
          results"; "test this recipe" syn: prove, try, try
          out, examine, essay
     2: test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
        "screen the blood for the hiv virus" syn: screen
     3: examine someone's knowledge of something; "the teacher tests
        us every week"; "we got quizzed on french irregular verbs"
        syn: quiz
     4: show a certain characteristic when tested; "he tested
        positive for hiv"
     5: achieve a certain score or rating on a test; "she tested
        high on the lsat and was admitted to all the good law
        schools"
     6: determine the presence or properties of a substance
     7: undergo a test; "she doesn't test well"
see also:
mental test mental testing psychometric test trial run trial run 
tryout examination exam prove try 
try out examine essay screen quiz 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

226 moby thesaurus words for "test":
   bernreuter personality inventory, binet-simon test,
   brown personality inventory, goldstein-sheerer test, iq, iq test,
   kent mental test, minnesota preschool scale, olympic games,
   olympics, oseretsky test, pap test, rorschach test,
   stanford revision, stanford-binet test, szondi test, tat,
   wechsler-bellevue intelligence scale, achievement test, acid test,
   alpha test, analysis, anatomic diagnosis, apperception test,
   aptitude test, armor, assay, assess, association test, audit,
   audition, barometer, beta test, biological diagnosis, biopsy,
   blank determination, blue book, bout, bring to test, brouillon,
   canon, catechize, check, check and doublecheck, check out,
   check over, check up on, chitin, clinical diagnosis, collate,
   concours, confirm, contest, controlled association test, cortex,
   criterion, cross-check, crucial test, crucible, cut and try,
   cut-and-try, cytodiagnosis, degree, demonstrate, derby,
   determination, diagnosis, differential diagnosis,
   digital examination, docimasy, double-check, electrocardiography,
   electroencephalography, electromyography, elytron, empirical,
   encounter, engagement, episperm, essay, evaluate, evaluation, exam,
   examen, examination, examine, experiment, experimental,
   experimentation, feeling out, fight, final, final examination,
   first draft, free association test, game, games, gauge, give a try,
   give a tryout, go, graduated scale, great go, gymkhana, have a go,
   hearing, heuristic, hit-or-miss, honors, inkblot test,
   intelligence quotient, intelligence test, interest inventory,
   interrogate, interview, investigation, joust, kiteflying,
   laboratory diagnosis, lorica, lorication, mail, mammography, match,
   matching, measure, meet, meeting, mental test, midsemester,
   midterm, model, norm, oral, oral examination, ordeal, parameter,
   pattern, pericarp, personality test, physical diagnosis,
   physical examination, pilot, plate, play around with,
   postmortem diagnosis, practice upon, prelim, probation,
   probationary, probative, probatory, probe, proof,
   protective covering, prove, proving, provisional,
   psychological test, pump, put to trial, quantity, query, question,
   quiz, rally, reading, readout, recheck, rencontre, research,
   road-test, rough draft, rough sketch, rule, run a sample, sample,
   scale, scute, scutum, serodiagnosis, shake down, shell, shield,
   smear, sounding out, speculative, standard, standardized test,
   study, substantiate, take-home examination, taste, tentative,
   test case, testa, testing, thematic apperception test, thick skin,
   tilt, touchstone, tournament, tourney, trial, trial-and-error,
   triple-check, tripos, try, try it on, try out, trying, type,
   urinalysis, uroscopy, validate, value, verification, verificatory,
   verify, viva, word association test, work-up, worm out of, written,
   written examination, yardstick

[8] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

test n. 1. real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get
   thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of
   the results. 2. some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler
   features with a developer looking over his or her shoulder, ready to
   pounce on mistakes. judging by the quality of most software, the second
   definition is far more prevalent. see also demo.


see also:
demo 

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

test
     
         the process of exercising a product to identify
        differences between expected and actual behaviour.  typically
        testing is bottom-up: unit testing and integration testing
        by developers, system testing by testers, and user
        acceptance testing by users.
     
        test coverage attempts to assess how complete a test has
        been.
     
        2. the second stage in a generate and test search
        algorithm.
     
        jargon file
     
        2003-09-24
     
     
see also:
unit testing integration testing system testing user acceptance testing test coverage generate and test 
algorithm jargon file 

[10] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

test. something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing. 7 
penn. st. rep. 428; 6 whart. 284. vide religious test. 

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