Test
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
A witness.
To make a testament, or will.
Alt. of Testa
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Test Quotations
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
Test Translations
test in Afrikaans is eksamen, probeer, navorsing, toets, aanpak, poging
test in Dutch is examen, keuring, onderzoek
test in Finnish is koettaa
test in French is essayer, test, examen, tester
test in Italian is prova, esamino, provare, prova
test in Latin is probatur, experior (experiri; expertus )
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