test

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun trying something to find out about it
  2. noun any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
  3. noun a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge

Etymology

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

trial, trial run, tryout

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