A Quick and Simple Dictionary

test

1. Noun.  (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match.
2. Noun.  A challenge.
3. Noun.  (context, Academics) An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. Noun.  A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. Noun.  (cricket) (context, normally “Test”) A Test match.
6. Noun.  (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.Image:Sea urchin tests.jpg|thumb|right|Two sea urchin tests.
7. Verb.  To challenge.
8. Verb.  (context, Academics) To administer or assign an examination that is given often during the academic term.
9. Verb.  To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
10. Verb.  (context, copulative) To be shown to be by test.