Definitions for the word, test

(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

(n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

(n.) A witness.

(n.) Alt. of Testa

(n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

(n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

(n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

(v. i.) To make a testament, or will.

(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

(v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.


7 words found in the Scrabble word, test



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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