test for (something)

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test for (something)

To apply or administer a test (to someone or something) in order to determine, identify, or verify something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "test" and "for." It's standard procedure to test for any immune system deficiencies ahead of such a major operation. They're testing everyone in the city to make sure there isn't another outbreak.

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test someone or something for something

to apply a test to someone or something to try to determine something or identify something. They tested me for all sorts of diseases. Ken tested the roof for weak spots.

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test for something

to try to find out about something by testing. We are testing for weak places in your roof. That's the noise you hear up there. They are testing for some sort of infection.

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test for

To administer a test to someone or something in order to determine the presence of something: The technician tested the blood sample for leukemia. The doctor tested the children for head lice. This procedure tests for the presence of harmful substances.

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The problem is further complicated when laboratories other than the LRN lack standardization, have greater access to nucleic acid amplification-based testing, and develop tests for global health threats outside a quality-regulated system.

Screening laboratory requests

Mechanistically based in vitro tests for ocular irritation likely will depend on a) well-characterized ocular cellular models, b) assays that measure biochemical end points of cellular injury, and c) a database of human responses.

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* Bowdoin College and Bates College in Maine, neither of which requires any standardized tests for admission.

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Teachers possessing habitual prudence are acutely aware of their conduct when teaching, preparing tests for students, and when administering their assessments.

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This element is used to monitor in-service T/1E/1 circuits, including 64Kbps channels within these connections performing routine tests for errors, signal characteristics and timing.

Changing support requirements for the wireless end user

Students take these tests for the first time in the spring of their junior year.

Money and motivation: other nations elicit better performance from their students through the use of high-stakes graduation exams. Along these same lines, Michigan now links college scholarships to high-school test results

We prepared four sets of these tests for first-year students.

Revision of prerequisites: ICT tools

This fever peaked last year with the passage of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, which requires such tests for every public school student in America in grades three through eight by 2006.

Tutor restoration: Test-prep firms like The Princeton Review are invading America's grade schools. This is: a) good. b) bad

2002-39, even if the taxpayer fails to satisfy one of the three tests for showing a natural-business year, it must still obtain approval by demonstrating some nontax reason for the change.

New rules on accounting-period changes for partnerships and S corporations. (Accounting Methods & Periods)

(8.) MacKenzie, William, et al, "Multiple False-positive Serologic Tests for HIV, HTLV-l and Hepatitis C Following Influenza vaccination, 1991," Journal of the American Medical Association, vol.

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Many of the NBS staff developing FIPS also developed testing methodologies and tests for the software that implemented the complex technical specifications in many of the FIPS.

Information technology measurement and testing activities at NIST

It tests for peak load, static load, thickness, and stresss-train behavior.

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The company is also conducting hair tests for forty to fifty schools, five Federal Reserve banks, and the police departments of New York City, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco.

More Than a Hair Off

Now, teams of researchers in the United States and Germany report that they have independently developed more practical tests for mad cow disease.

Of mad cows and Englishmen; telltale protein betrays disease

Traditional tests for evaluating silicone rubber molding compounds for gasket applications include: