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Testing   /tˈɛstɪŋ/   Listen
Testing

noun
1.
The act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works.
2.
An examination of the characteristics of something.  "It involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"
3.
The act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned.  Synonym: examination.



Test

verb
(past & past part. tested; pres. part. testing)
1.
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.  Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out.  "Test this recipe"
2.
Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection.  Synonym: screen.
3.
Examine someone's knowledge of something.  Synonym: quiz.  "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"
4.
Show a certain characteristic when tested.
5.
Achieve a certain score or rating on a test.
6.
Determine the presence or properties of (a substance).
7.
Undergo a test.



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"Testing" Quotes from Famous Books



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— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson

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— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... he entered the office as assistant editor of Outing. Here was a new field and another opportunity for testing his fitness. He threw himself into the work with characteristic energy and enthusiasm, and his influence on the magazine was marked from the first. He soon succeeded in projecting into it something of his own passionately human personality. In the fall of that ...
— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)

... of two persons—large footsteps like a man's, and small footsteps, which, by putting my own feet into them and testing their size in that manner, I felt certain were Laura's. The ground was confusedly marked in this way just before the boat-house. Close against one side of it, under shelter of the projecting roof, I discovered a little hole in the sand—a hole ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins

... the other manured plots, will thus furnish data for estimating the respective amounts of increase obtained by different manures. One very simple kind of experiment is what is called the "seven-plot" test. It consists in testing the results obtained by using nitrogenous, phosphatic, and potash manures alone and in different combinations. Thus the plots would be ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman


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