What does Test Mean?
Definition as Noun
- a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
- a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
- trying something to find out about it
- the act of undergoing testing
- the act of testing something
Definition as Verb
- show a certain characteristic when tested
- achieve a certain score or rating on a test
- determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- undergo a test
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- examine someone's knowledge of something
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
Examples
- "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"
- "the test was standardized on a large sample of students"
- "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
- "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
- "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"
- "He tested positive for HIV"
- "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"
- "This approach has been tried with good results"; "test this recipe"
- "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"
- "screen the blood for the HIV virus"