test

noun11

1. •
   a set of questions given to students to find out what they have learned
2. •
   A challenge, trial.
3. •
   A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

   • It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test — 1986
4. •
   A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items.
5. •
   A Test match.
6. •
   (informal, slang) Clipping of testosterone.
7. •
   The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
8. •
   Testa; seed coat.
9. •
   A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
10. •
    (no longer used) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

    • Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best? — 1675
11. •
    (no longer used) A witness.

    • Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed. — 1523

verb10

1. •
   To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

   • September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
2. •
   To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
3. •
   To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
4. •
   To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
5. •
   To be shown to be by test.

   • He tested positive for cancer.
6. •
   To challenge, to put a strain on (something).

   • Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
7. •
   (slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.

   • I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah — 2023
8. •
   To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
9. •
   (no longer used) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
10. •
    (no longer used) To make a testament, or will.

noun2

1. •
   Abbreviation of testosterone.
2. •
   Acronym of Treadmill Exercise Stress Test.