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say it: test
test is a verb and noun meaning "put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to". It is pronounced /ˈtɛst/ — test. It carries 13 recorded senses.
achieve a certain score or rating on a test
“She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools”
determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
trying something to find out about it
“a sample for ten days free trial”
“a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain”
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”
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”
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”
a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for test come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.