test

See also: Test, TEST, tèst, těst, tęst, țest, and tesť

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /tɛst/, [tʰɛst]

• Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a test”:

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• Audio (General American):

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• (New Zealand, General South African) IPA^(key): [tʰest]
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. A challenge, trial.
   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
   • 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!‎:

     It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test

5. (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.

   

   Two sea urchin tests

7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Synonyms

• (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
• (academics: examination): examination, quiz

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “academics: examination”): recess

Hyponyms

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(Hyponyms of test):

• acid test
• Anderson-Darling test
• babysitter test
• Benedict's test
• blood test
• cock's comb test
• duck test
• elephant test
• field test
• fine-tooth comb test
• flame test
• fragility test
• inkblot test
• level test
• litmus test
• Martindale rub test
• Martindale test
• Miller-Rabin test
• multiple-choice test
• nose test
• Rabin-Miller test
• Rorschach test
• single-choice test
• smell test
• smoke test
• sniff test
• soap test
• software test
• spin prime test
• static test
• stress test

Derived terms

• A/B test
• Abel test
• acceptance test
• air puff test
• alpha test
• alternating series test
• Becchi's test
• Bechdel test
• beep test
• Beilstein test
• bench test
• beta test
• bleeding time test
• bleep test
• blind test
• Blockburger test
• blot test
• borax bead test
• Bourne test
• brake test
• breath test
• brown bag test
• brown paper bag test
• central location test
• Charpy impact test
• chi-square test
• comb test
• Coombs test
• Cooper test
• copy test
• crash test
• crash test dummy
• day-after recall test
• device under test
• Dick test
• diehard test
• dielectric withstand test
• Dix-Hallpike test
• DNA test
• double-blind test
• Draize test
• driving test
• drug test
• DUT
• elk test
• emissions test
• eye test
• field sobriety test
• field-test
• final test
• flash test
• flood test
• fluorine test
• foretest
• Friedman test
• fuzz test
• Griess test
• Grubbs' test
• Guthrie test
• hall test
• Heaf test
• high-test
• high-test peroxide
• hit test
• hole-board test
• hot iron test
• Howey test
• ignition tube test
• Ishihara test
• Izod test
• Kesternich test
• Knoop test
• KPSS test
• Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test
• Lachman test
• lateral flow test
• Lemon test
• limit comparison test
• liver function test
• Lüscher test
• Mako Mori test
• Mann-Whitney U test
• Mantoux test
• Marechal-Rosin test
• Marechal's test
• maternity test
• means test
• means-test
• Miller test
• mirror test
• Molisch's test
• mom test
• Montenegro test
• Mooney face test
• moose test
• Mullen test
• Mull of Kintyre test
• Murphy's test
• nerdity test
• nonstress test
• nucleic acid test
• oil test
• open-field test
• oral test
• oscillating wave test system
• Palko test
• Papanicolaou test
• paper bag test
• Pap test
• pap test
• paraffin test
• patch test
• paternity test
• pencil test
• penetration test
• pen test
• perfect gold standard test
• placement test
• platelet function test
• poppy seed test
• postcoital test
• Potter Stewart test
• precipitin test
• pregnancy test
• pre-test
• prick test
• pub test
• pulmonary function test
• purity test
• put to the test
• rabbit test
• rape test kit
• rapid antigen test
• RAT test
• red face test
• reverse Turing test
• Rinne test
• road test
• road-test
• Rogers test
• Rorschach inkblot test
• saliva test
• Sally-Anne test
• salt spray test
• sanity test
• Schamroth's test
• Schick test
• Schwabach test
• screen test
• self-test
• sequential probability ratio test
• shit test
• shovel test
• Sims test
• sitting-rising test
• smear test
• Snellen test
• soak test
• Sobel test
• spark test
• speaking test
• split test
• spot test
• stand the test of time
• straight face test
• straight-face test
• Stroop test
• Student's t test
• Student's t-test
• sub-test
• surprise test paradox
• Szondi test
• Tan Delta test
• taste-test
• teach to the test
• Tecumseh step test
• test and trace
• test bed
• test bench
• test card
• test case
• test cross
• test data
• test depth
• test double
• test drive
• test-drive
• test-driven development
• tester
• test-fire
• test firing
• test flight
• test-fly
• test harness
• test match
• test mule
• test of time
• test-paper
• test paper
• test pattern
• test pilot
• test portion
• test pressing
• test-retest method
• test run
• test site
• test someone's patience
• test subject
• test suite
• test-taker
• test track
• test tube
• test-tube baby
• test tube baby
• Thomas test
• tilt table test
• time test
• tine test
• torture-test
• Tower of London test
• trade test
• transfer test
• triangle test
• triple test
• t test
• t-test
• Tukey's honest significance test
• Tukey's range test
• Tukey's test
• Turing test
• unit test
• Wada test
• Wald test
• Wassermann test
• Weber test
• white glove test
• white-glove test
• Widal test
• Winkler test
• Winogradsky test
• z-test

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: test
• → Catalan: test
• → Czech: test
• → Danish: test
• → Dutch: test
• → Finnish: testi
• → French: test
• → German: Test
• → Hungarian: teszt
• → Italian: test
• → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
• → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
• → Macedonian: тест (test)
• → Norwegian: test
• → Persian: تست (test)
• → Polish: test
• → Portuguese: teste
• → Romanian: test
• → Russian: тест (test)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тест

  Latin script: test

• → Slovene: test
• → Spanish: test
• → Swedish: test
• → Turkish: test
• → Ukrainian: тест (test)

Translations

challenge, trial

Albanian: provë (sq) (indefinite), prova (definite) Arabic: اِخْتِبَار (ar) m (iḵtibār), تَجْرِبَة f (tajriba) Asturian: prueba f Azerbaijani: sınaq (az) Belarusian: тэст m (test), выпрабава́нне n (vyprabavánnje) Bulgarian: тест (bg) m (test), изпита́ние (bg) n (izpitánie) Burmese: အစမ်း (my) (a.cam:) Catalan: prova (ca) f, test (ca) m Cebuano: pagsulay Chinese: Mandarin: 試驗 / 试验 (zh) (shìyàn) Czech: test (cs) m, zkouška (cs) f Danish: prøve (da) c, prøvelse c, forsøg n Dutch: test (nl) m, proef (nl) m Esperanto: provi Finnish: koe (fi), koetus (fi) French: épreuve (fr) f Friulian: prove f Galician: proba (gl) f, test m, ensaio m German: Test (de) m, Versuch (de) m Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍃 f (gakusts) Greek: δοκιμασία (el) f (dokimasía), δοκιμή (el) f (dokimí) Ancient: πεῖρα f (peîra), δοκιμή f (dokimḗ) Hebrew: מִבְחָן (he) m (mivkhán) Hindi: चुनौती (hi) f (cunautī) Hungarian: próba (hu) Indonesian: tes (id) Italian: prova (it), verifica (it) Japanese: 実験 (ja) (じっけん, jikken), 試練 (ja) (しれん, shiren) Korean: 검사 (ko) (geomsa) Ladin: proa f Luxembourgish: Prouf f Malay: ujian (ms) Malayalam: പരീക്ഷ (ml) (parīkṣa) Norwegian: Bokmål: test (no) m, prøve (no) m or f, forsøk (no) n Occitan: espròva (oc) f Ottoman Turkish: فتنه (fitne) Persian: آزمایش (fa) (âzmâyeš) Plautdietsch: Test m, Proow f Polish: próba (pl) f Portuguese: prova (pt) f, teste (pt) m Romanian: probă (ro) f Russian: про́ба (ru) f (próba), тест (ru) m (tɛst), испыта́ние (ru) n (ispytánije) Sanskrit: परीक्षा (sa) f (parīkṣā) Sardinian: proa f, proba, prova Scottish Gaelic: dearbhadh m, feuchainn f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: те̏ст m Roman: tȅst (sh) m Sicilian: prova f Slovak: test Slovene: preizkus m, preizkušnja f Spanish: prueba (es) f, probatura f Swahili: jaribio (sw) Swedish: prov (sv) n, prövning (sv) c, försök (sv) n Tagalog: pagsusulit (tl) Tajik: озмоиш (tg) (ozmoyiš) Turkish: test (tr), deneme (tr) Ukrainian: тест m (test), випро́бування n (vypróbuvannja) Venetan: prova f Vietnamese: sự thử thách Zazaki: cerbnayen, test kerden Zulu: please add this translation if you can

academics: examination

Albanian: provim (sq) (indefinite), provimi (definite) Arabic: اِمْتِحَان (ar) m (imtiḥān), اِخْتِبَار (ar) m (iḵtibār) Hijazi Arabic: اِخْتِبار m (iḵtibār) Armenian: քննություն (hy) (kʻnnutʻyun), ստուգարք (hy) (stugarkʻ), ստուգողական (hy) (stugoġakan) Azerbaijani: test (az), sınaq (az) Basque: azterketa Belarusian: экза́мен m (ekzámjen), тэст m (test), кантро́льная рабо́та f (kantrólʹnaja rabóta) (control work) Bengali: পরীক্ষা (bn) (porikkha), ইমতেহান (bn) (imtehan) Bulgarian: и́зпит (bg) m (ízpit), тест (bg) m (test) Burmese: စာမေးပွဲ (my) (came:pwai:) Catalan: examen (ca) m, prova (ca) f, test (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 考試 / 考试 (haau2 si5) Mandarin: 考試 / 考试 (zh) (kǎoshì) Czech: zkouška (cs) f Danish: eksamen c Dutch: examen (nl) n, test (nl) m Esperanto: ekzameno Finnish: koe (fi), tentti (fi) French: test (fr) m, examen (fr) m Galician: proba (gl) f, exame (gl) m, test m German: Examen (de) n, Prüfung (de) f Greek: διαγώνισμα (el) n (diagónisma) Hebrew: מִבְחָן (he) m (mivkhán) Hindi: परीक्षा (hi) m (parīkṣā), परख (hi) f (parakh), इम्तहान (hi) m (imtahān) Hungarian: vizsga (hu), teszt (hu) Irish: scrúdú m Italian: esame (it) m Japanese: 試験 (ja) (しけん, shiken), テスト (ja) (tesuto) Korean: 시험(試驗) (ko) (siheom), 테스트 (ko) (teseuteu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تاقیکردنەوە (taqîkirdnewe) Lao: ການສອບ (kān sǭp) Luxembourgish: Prüfung f Macedonian: тест (mk) m (test), испит m (ispit) Malay: ujian (ms) Malayalam: പരീക്ഷ (ml) (parīkṣa) Persian: آزمایش (fa) (âzmâyeš), امتحان (fa) (emtehân), تست (fa) (test) Plautdietsch: Test m Polish: sprawdzian (pl) m Portuguese: exame (pt) m, teste (pt) m, prova (pt) Romanian: examen (ro) n Russian: экза́мен (ru) m (ekzámen), тест (ru) m (tɛst), контро́льная рабо́та f (kontrólʹnaja rabóta) (control work) Scottish Gaelic: feuchainn f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: те̏ст m, ѝспит m Roman: tȅst (sh) m, ìspit (sh) m Sicilian: esami (scn) f Slovak: skúška f, test Slovene: test m, izpit (sl) m Spanish: examen (es) m, test (es) m, prueba (es) f Swedish: prov (sv) n, tentamen (sv) c, tenta (sv) c, dugga (sv) c Tagalog: pagsusulit (tl), subok Telugu: పరీక్ష (te) (parīkṣa) Thai: สอบ (th) (sɔ̀ɔp), การสอบ (th) (gaan-sɔ̀ɔp) Turkish: sınav (tr), test (tr) Ukrainian: екза́мен (uk) m (ekzámen), тест m (test) Urdu: امتحان (ur) m (imtahān) Vietnamese: bài thi Yiddish: עקזאַמען m (ekzamen), בחינה f (bkhine)

product examination

Arabic: اِمْتِحَان (ar) m (imtiḥān), اِخْتِبَار (ar) m (iḵtibār) Armenian: փորձարկում (hy) (pʻorjarkum) Belarusian: тэст m (test) Bulgarian: тест (bg) m (test) Catalan: test (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 測試 / 测试 (zh) (cèshì), 檢查 / 检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá) Czech: test (cs) m Danish: test (da) c Dutch: test (nl) m Finnish: testi (fi), käyttökoe French: test (fr) m Galician: proba (gl) f, test m, ensaio m German: Test (de), Prüfung (de) f, Erprobung (de) f Greek: εξέταση (el) f (exétasi) Hindi: आज़माइश f (āzmāiś), इम्तहान (hi) m (imtahān), प्रयोग (hi) m (prayog), परीक्षा (hi) m (parīkṣā) Hungarian: teszt (hu), vizsgálat (hu) Irish: tástáil f Japanese: 検査 (ja) (けんさ, kensa), テスト (ja) (tesuto) Korean: 테스트 (ko) (teseuteu), 검사 (ko) (geomsa) Macedonian: тест (mk) m (test) Malay: ujian (ms) Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana) Persian: آزمایش (fa) (âzmâyeš), امتحان (fa) (emtehân) Polish: sprawdzian (pl) m, test (pl) m Portuguese: teste (pt) m Romanian: probă (ro) f, test (ro) n Russian: тест (ru) m (tɛst), испыта́ние (ru) n (ispytánije) Scottish Gaelic: dearbhadh m, feuchainn f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тест m Roman: test (sh) m Slovak: test m Slovene: test m Spanish: prueba (es) f, test (es) m, probatura f Swedish: test (sv) n, provning (sv) c, prov (sv) c Tajik: озмоиш (tg) (ozmoyiš), имтиҳон (tg) (imtihon) Telugu: పరీక్ష (te) (parīkṣa) Thai: การทดลอง (th) (gaan-tót-lɔɔng) Ukrainian: тест m (test) Urdu: آزمائش (ur) f (āzmāiś), امتحان (ur) m (imtahān) Vietnamese: phép kiểm thử, phép kiểm tra

cricket: test game

Malayalam: ടെസ്റ്റ് (ṭesṟṟŭ) Maori: parawhakawai Marathi: कसोटी (mr) f (kasoṭī) Vietnamese: cuộc thi đấu

external calciferous shell

Finnish: kuori (fi) Galician: testo (gl) m German: Gehäuse (de) n Russian: панцирь (ru) m (pancirʹ)

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).

   Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

   to test the soundness of a principle

   to test the validity of an argument

   • September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address

     Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems– […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.

   He tested positive for cancer.

   • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development:

     It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.

7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

   to test a solution by litmus paper

8. (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
   • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 31:

     Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.

   • 2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)‎performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again:

     I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah

Conjugation

Conjugation of test

infinitive	(to) test
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	test	tested
2nd-person singular	test, testest†	tested, testedst†
3rd-person singular	tests, testeth†	tested
plural	test
subjunctive	test	tested
imperative	test	—
participles	testing	tested

^† Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

• field-test
• test out
• test the water
• test the waters
• tried and tested
• undertest

Descendants

• German: testen

Translations

to challenge

Azerbaijani: sınamaq (az), sınaqdan keçirmək Bulgarian: изпитвам (bg) (izpitvam), тествам (bg) (testvam) Catalan: posar a prova Chinese: Mandarin: 測試 / 测试 (zh) (cèshì) Danish: udfordre Finnish: testata (fi), koestaa, haastaa (fi) French: tester (fr), mettre à l’épreuve (fr) German: fordern (de), abverlangen (de), provozieren (de) Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan) Greek: δοκιμάζω (el) (dokimázo) Ancient: ἐλέγχω (elénkhō) Hungarian: kihív (hu) Italian: testare (it), mettere alla prova Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu) Kyrgyz: сыноо (ky) (sınoo) Latin: perīclitor (la) Malay: menguji Malayalam: പരീക്ഷിക്കുക (ml) (parīkṣikkuka) Portuguese: testar (pt) Romanian: proba (ro), încerca (ro), testa (ro) Russian: испы́тывать (ru) impf (ispýtyvatʹ), испыта́ть (ru) pf (ispytátʹ), тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ) Scottish Gaelic: feuch Slovak: testovať impf, otestovať pf Slovene: preizkusiti pf Spanish: poner a prueba Swahili: -jaribu Ukrainian: випробовувати (vyprobovuvaty), тестувати (testuvaty) Vietnamese: thử (vi), thử thách (vi)

to administer an examination during the academic term

Arabic: اِمْتَحَنَ (imtaḥana) Azerbaijani: sınaqdan keçirmək, sınamaq (az) Belarusian: тэстава́ць impf (testavácʹ), тэсці́раваць impf (tescíravacʹ) Catalan: examinar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 測驗 / 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), 考驗 / 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn) Czech: testovat (cs) impf, zkoušet (cs) impf, vyzkoušet (cs) pf Danish: teste (da) Finnish: järjestää tentti French: tester (fr) German: prüfen (de) Greek: εξετάζω (el) (exetázo) Hungarian: vizsgázik (hu), vizsgáztat (hu) Japanese: テストする (ja) (tesuto suru), 試験する (ja) (しけんする, shiken suru) Korean: 시험하다 (ko) (siheomhada) Latin: specto (la) Polish: testować (pl) impf Russian: тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ) Scottish Gaelic: feuch Slovak: testovať impf, skúšať impf, vyskúšať pf Spanish: evaluar (es), testear (es) Tagalog: subukin Ukrainian: трестува́ти impf (trestuváty) Vietnamese: đưa (vi) bài thi

to place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions

Arabic: اِمْتَحَنَ (imtaḥana), اِخْتَبَرَ (iḵtabara), اِبْتَلَى (ibtalā), فَتَنَ (fatana) Azerbaijani: sınamaq (az), sınaqdan keçirmək Bulgarian: тествам (bg) (testvam) Catalan: provar (ca), testejar Chinese: Mandarin: 檢驗 / 检验 (zh) (jiǎnyàn) Czech: testovat (cs) impf, zkoušet (cs) impf, vyzkoušet (cs) pf Danish: teste (da) Finnish: testata (fi) French: tester (fr) German: erproben (de) Greek: δοκιμάζω (el) (dokimázo), θέτω υπό δοκιμασία (théto ypó dokimasía) Hungarian: tesztel (hu), vizsgál (hu) Irish: tástáil f Italian: testare (it) Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu), テストする (ja) (tesuto suru) Latin: experior Malayalam: പരിശോധിക്കുക (ml) (pariśōdhikkuka) Polish: testować (pl) impf Portuguese: testar (pt) Russian: тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ), испы́тывать (ru) impf (ispýtyvatʹ), испыта́ть (ru) pf (ispytátʹ) Slovak: testovať impf, skúšať impf, vyskúšať pf Slovene: testirati impf, preizkusiti pf Spanish: examinar (es), probar (es), testear (es) Ukrainian: тестува́ти impf (testuváty), відтестува́ти pf (vidtestuváty), випробо́вувати impf (vyprobóvuvaty), випро́бувати impf (vypróbuvaty), ви́пробувати pf (výprobuvaty) Vietnamese: kiểm thử (vi), kiểm tra (vi)

to be shown to be by test

Finnish: testata (fi) German: aufzeigen (de), erweisen (de) (reflexive) Spanish: dar (es), resultar (es)

to put to the proof

Ottoman Turkish: دكه‌مك (deñemek) Spanish: explorar (es), evaluar (es), revisar (es), probar (es), examinar (es)

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Albanian: (please verify) provoj (sq) Arabic: (please verify) اِخْتَبَرَ (iḵtabara) Dutch: (please verify) test (nl), (please verify) testen (nl) Indonesian: (please verify) coba (id) Italian: (please verify) esaminare (it), (please verify) provare (it), (please verify) valutare (it), (please verify) verificare (it) Mandarin: Simplified: (please verify) 测试 (zh) (cèshì), (please verify) 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), (please verify) 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn), (please verify) 化验 (zh) (huàyàn) Traditional: (please verify) 測試 / 测试 (zh) (cèshì), (please verify) 測驗 / 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), (please verify) 考驗 / 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn), (please verify) 化驗 / 化验 (zh) (huàyàn) Norwegian: (please verify) teste (no), (please verify) tester, (please verify) testet (no), (please verify) har testet Swedish: (please verify) utmana (sv), (please verify) testa (sv) Telugu: (please verify) పరీక్షించు (te) (parīkṣiñcu) Thai: (please verify) ทดสอบ (th) (tót-sɔ̀ɔp)

Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. (obsolete) A witness.
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

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

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Related terms

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Etymology 3

Noun

test (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.

Further reading

• “test”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “test”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets

Breton

Noun

test

1. witness

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtest]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin testum (“earthenware pot”), from testa (“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanish tiesto.

Noun

test m (plural testos)

1. flowerpot
2. potsherd

Derived terms

• pixar fora de test

Related terms

• testa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test (exam or challenge)

Derived terms

• testar
• testejar

Related terms

• tèster

Further reading

• “test” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “test”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛst]
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test m inan

1. test

   provést test ― to perform a test

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	test	testy
genitive	testu	testů
dative	testu	testům
accusative	test	testy
vocative	teste	testy
locative	testu	testech
instrumental	testem	testy

Declension of test (hard masculine inanimate)

Derived terms

• testovací
• testovat
• testový

Further reading

• “test”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “test”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “test”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsd/

Noun

test c (singular definite testen, plural indefinite tests)

1. A test, assessment or examination.

Declension