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Synonyms for test

check

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examine

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  • examine
  • put someone to the test
  • put someone through their paces

challenge

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put something to the test

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for test

a procedure that ascertains effectiveness, value, proper function, or other quality

an operation employed to resolve an uncertainty

a set of questions or exercises designed to determine knowledge or skill

a means by which individuals are compared and judged

constituting a tentative model for future experiment or development

to subject to a procedure that ascertains effectiveness, value, proper function, or other quality

to subject to a test of knowledge or skill

to engage in experiments

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Synonyms for test

any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc

the act of undergoing testing

a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

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examine someone's knowledge of something

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show a certain characteristic when tested

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achieve a certain score or rating on a test

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determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

undergo a test

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Study of intra- and interlaboratory variability in the results of rabbit eye and skin irritation tests. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 19:276-360.
"We're trying to align all of our summative tests to state standards," says Cheryl Schroeder, coordinator of standards and assessment at the Wyoming Dept.
The speed for the [V.sub.30] Value was calculated from the Taylor line for the two grades from cutting tool life tests. Investigators then tested a cutting tool insert at the [V.sub.30] Value until it reached 0.015 in.
* Development of a critical path to the ABCS 6.4 Initial Operational Test (IOT) that includes:
RADVISION (Nasdaq:RVSN) has announced the general worldwide availability of its new ProLab Test Management Suite version 3.5, a highly scalable, feature-rich testing system suitable for all stages of development, Quality Assurance, deployment, and tuning of voice and video over IP (SIP and H.323) products.
Even though "you have to test" is a useful answer to almost every newsletter marketing question, a lot of testing done by newsletter publishers is of doubtful value.
They are: "(1) verbatim note taking is, perhaps the least effective way to take notes, (2) notes should be considered a work in progress, (3) notes should be used as study guides for tests, and (4) the more notes that are taken, the better" (pp.
Traditionally, voice quality was always tested using large panels of human users to derive a "mean opinion." These measures were later dropped and, in the mid-1990s, standards were developed to automate the testing and measurement of end-to-end voice quality on both circuit and packet switched networks.
As a result, urologists must decide whether to conduct another biopsy or additional PSA tests in pursuit of an adequate diagnosis, or to delay follow-up, potentially allowing an undiagnosed tumor to grow unchecked.
In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one-year $2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level 1 or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.
The overall mean of all three tests was 68.4 with a standard deviation of 9.67.
In 2001, a few cases of anthrax triggered large numbers of nationwide requests to test nasal swabs for Bacillus anthracis despite the absence of data to support this clinical practice outside epidemiologic investigations (5).
Because NCLB mandates testing in major subject areas for students and using test results to determine if groups of students, teachers, and schools perform at proficient levels, schools have placed major emphases on testing, preparing for the tests, and aligning curricula, programs, course offerings, and support services with the tests.
In tests taken as part of the study, 10% of respondents were found to be HIV-positive; of this group, 46% had tested negative within the year preceding the survey, and 54% had not been tested recently.
Less invasive tests, such as fecal-blood tests and barium enemas, provide less information about a patient's cancer risk than colonoscopies and sigmoidoscopies do, and they must be repeated more frequently.