Word Meaning

Meaning of 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

Crossword clue for test

- Appraisal of a cricket match
- Assess ability of
- Candidates’ assessment
- Exam
- Exam begins to erode student’s trust
- Exam setback on final attempt
- Examine
- First trial exam? Such torment!
- International cricket match
- observation
- Probe
- Prove
- Put to proof
- Question closely
- Quiz
- School exam
- science experiment
- Sporting match shackled by late start
- test
- Trial
- Trial cricket match
- Trial period
- Try out
- Try out a set before tea