Meaning

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

noun trying something to find out about it

verb test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

originFrom 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…

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