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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



... all probability, worse today than ever. It is difficult to compare wages without making a close investigation in different localities and in many trades, and testing, by a comparison with the cost of living, the real and not merely the money value of wages, but there is a general agreement among authorities that wages on the whole have not kept pace with the workers' ...
— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry
... their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. She was religious, a professor of religion—what some would call "a saint;" and she referred to religion often in sanctioned phrase—in phrase which those who possess a perception of the ridiculous, without owning the power of exactly testing and truly judging character, would certainly have esteemed a proper subject for satire, a matter for mimicry and laughter. They would have been hugely mistaken for their pains. Sincerity is never ludicrous; it is always respectable. Whether truth—be it religious or moral truth—speak ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... that there were no living persons on board this fine but ruthlessly despoiled ship, or if there were, they must be in hiding; and with the view of testing this latter point I now swung myself down through the open hatchway leading to the lazarette, believing that that would be the part of the ship wherein a person might most successfully hide and evade capture. I was no sooner down in this gloomy receptacle, devoted ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... "I never lost faith in the practicability of the invention, nor abandoned the intention of testing it as soon as I could command the means." But in order to command the means, he was obliged to devote himself to his art, and in this he did not meet with the encouragement which he had expected and which he deserved. His ideals were always high, perhaps too high ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse
... the didactic quality which he had not quite guarded himself against in the poetry otherwise praised. He liked your liking, and he openly rejoiced in it; and I suppose he made himself believe that in trying his verse with his friends he was testing it; but I do not believe that he was, and I do not think he ever corrected his judgment by theirs, however he suffered ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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