tests

nounexamination, quiz
verbexamine, quiz

Antonyms for tests

conclusion

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "small vessel used in assaying precious metals," from Old French test, from Latin testum "earthen pot," related to testa "piece of burned clay, earthen pot, shell" (cf. Latin testudo "tortoise") and texere "to weave" (cf. Lithuanian tistas "vessel made of willow twigs;" see texture (n.)).

Sense of "trial or examination to determine the correctness of something" is recorded from 1590s. The connecting notion is "ascertaining the quality of a metal by melting it in a pot." Test Act was the name given to various laws in English history meant to exclude Catholics and Nonconformists from office, especially that of 1673, repealed 1828. Test drive (v.) is first recorded 1954.

Example Sentences fortests

A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Yet, in the application of them, as tests of good or bad water painting, 16.

These tests demonstrated the practicability of artificial flight.

True knowledge is a whole, and is at rest; consistency and universality are the tests of truth.

Where are the tests by which to distinguish the true votes from the false?

These tests may be safely applied to the work of Mr. Dakyns.

Equally true is it that he tests the mettle of those with him day by day.

The tests should be made near the end of the charge, with the cell voltages at about 2.7.

My wife and I agreed to all tests they put to us, and all was quite satisfactory.

Neither spoke, so that from their voices, that best of all tests, nothing could be learned.