Test Meaning
/tɛst/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA challenge, trial.
nounA challenge, trial., An examination, given often during the academic term.
Sentence Examples
You have only to study hard, and you will pass the test.
Now that you have passed your test, you can drive on your own.
I passed my driving test at the first attempt.
CEFR Practice Quiz
I need to ____ my new mobile phone before I start using it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The students are studying very hard for their final science ____ which will take place in the main hall next week today.
Word Origin & History
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 his gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge. Displaced Old English afandung.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2012, page 168:
"It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test"
— 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
"Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?"
— 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
"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."
— 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2013, page 200:
"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."
— 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
I need to ____ my new mobile phone before I start using it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The students are studying very hard for their final science ____ which will take place in the main hall next week today.