Test
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Test
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1 n.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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2 n.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
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3 n.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
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4 n.
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
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5 n.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
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6 n.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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7 n.
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.
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8 v. t.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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9 v. t.
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.
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10 v. t.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
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11 n.
A witness.
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12 v. i.
To make a testament, or will.
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13 n.
Alt. of Testa
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14 n.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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15 n.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
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16 n.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
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17 n.
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
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18 n.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
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19 n.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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20 n.
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.
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21 v. t.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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22 v. t.
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.
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23 v. t.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
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24 n.
A witness.
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25 v. i.
To make a testament, or will.
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26 n.
Alt. of Testa