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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



... secretly slipped a powder into his hands, he pours it into a cup of wine, which he presents to Frauenlob as a drink of reconciliation. The Emperor handing the goblet to Hildegund, bids her drink to her lover. Testing it, she at once feels its deadly effect. Frauenlob, seeing his love stagger, snatches the cup from her emptying it at one draught. He dies, still praising the Emperor and women, breathing the name of his bride with his last breath. Servazio is captured, and ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... to hear others gobble, nevertheless he enjoyed the excuse for a fight that their gobbling gave him. And when he had nothing more important to do he often stood still and listened in the hope of hearing some upstart gobbler testing his voice in a neighboring field. Newly grown cocks had to go a long way off to be safe from Turkey ...
— The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot - Slumber-Town Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... passing around a paper on which she had copied a sentence that her teacher had written on the blackboard just before closing hour that day. With an idea of testing the children's knowledge of English, the teacher had written the line and told her class to think it over and, in the morning, bring her the sentence rewritten in different words, but retaining ...
— The Corner House Girls Growing Up - What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended • Grace Brooks Hill
... wide, ghostly landscape, advancing a few paces, stopping, searching, advancing again, but uncertainly. As it emerged more fully into view it disclosed a bundle in the hand, a light gray suit, and a common round straw hat. It moved as though testing ground that might give way beneath it or as trying the conditions of some new and awesome sphere of existence into which it had ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King
... elderly gait upon the grassy margin of the highway, and looking pleasantly around him as he walked. From time to time he paused, took out his note-book and made an entry with a pencil; and any spy who had been near enough would have heard him mumbling words as though he were a poet testing verses. The voice of the wheels was still faint, and it was plain the traveller had ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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