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Trial and Test Definitions

Trial

A proceeding in which opposing parties in a dispute present evidence and make arguments on the application of the law before a judge or jury
The case is expected to go to trial.

Test

A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something; a trial
A test of one's eyesight.
Subjecting a hypothesis to a test.
A test of an athlete's endurance.

Trial

An instance of such a proceeding
The trial of Socrates.

Test

A series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability.

Trial

The act or process of testing, trying, or putting to the proof
A trial of one's faith.

Test

A basis for evaluation or judgment
"A test of democratic government is how Congress and the president work together" (Haynes Johnson).
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Trial

An instance of such testing, especially as part of a series of tests or experiments
A clinical trial of a drug.

Test

(Chemistry) A physical or chemical change by which a substance may be detected or its properties ascertained.

Trial

An effort or attempt
Succeeded on the third trial.

Test

A cupel.

Trial

A state of pain or anguish that tests patience, endurance, or belief
"the fiery trial through which we pass" (Abraham Lincoln).

Test

A hard external covering, as that of certain amoebas, dinoflagellates, and sea urchins.
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Trial

A trying, troublesome, or annoying person or thing
The child was a trial to his parents.

Test

To subject to a test; try
Tested the pen by scribbling on scrap paper.
Testing job applicants.

Trial

A preliminary competition or test to determine qualifications, as in a sport.

Test

To reveal the degree of (a given quality) in someone or something by or as if by means of a test
The experiment tested the rats' ability to solve spatial problems. The long war tested the country's resolve.

Trial

Of, relating to, or used in a trial.

Test

To identify the presence or amount of one or more substances in
Tested the water for lead.
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Trial

Attempted or advanced on a provisional or experimental basis
A married couple on a trial separation.

Test

To identify the amount of (a substance) in something
Tested the nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil.

Trial

Made or done in the course of a trial or test.

Test

To ascertain the properties of
Tested the steel for hardness and tensile strength.

Trial

An opportunity to test something out; a test.
They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.

Test

To assay (metal) in a cupel.

Trial

Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.

Test

To undergo a test.

Trial

A difficult or annoying experience, such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety
That boy was a trial to his parents.

Test

To administer a test
Test for acid content.
Test for the presence of an antibody.

Trial

A tryout to pick members of a team.
Soccer trials

Test

To achieve a score or rating on tests
Tested high on the entrance exams.

Trial

(ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.

Test

To exhibit a given characteristic when subjected to a test
Test positive for the tubercle bacillus.

Trial

(UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.

Test

A challenge, trial.

Trial

Pertaining to a trial or test.

Test

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

Trial

Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

Test

(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

Trial

Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.

Test

A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

Trial

Triple.

Test

A Test match.

Trial

(grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people; contrast singular, dual and plural. (See Ambai language for an example.)
No language has a trial number unless it has a dual.

Test

(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.

Trial

To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.

Test

(botany) Testa; seed coat.

Trial

To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.

Test

(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Trial

The act of trying or testing in any manner.

Test

(obsolete) A witness.

Trial

Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal fight.

Test

Testosterone

Trial

The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings.

Test

To challenge.
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

Trial

The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
Repeated trials of the issues and events of actions.

Test

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

Trial

That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
Every station is exposed to some trials.

Test

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

Trial

Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.

Test

(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

Trial

The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.

Test

To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.

Trial

(law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal;
Most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial

Test

(copulative) To be shown to be by test.
He tested positive for cancer.

Trial

The act of testing something;
In the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately
He called each flip of the coin a new trial

Test

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

Trial

(sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications;
The trials for the semifinals began yesterday

Test

To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

Trial

(law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law;
He had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty

Test

To make a testament, or will.

Trial

Trying something to find out about it;
A sample for ten days free trial
A trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain

Test

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots, tests, and many mo.

Trial

An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event;
His mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him
Life is full of tribulations
A visitation of the plague

Test

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

Trial

The act of undergoing testing;
He survived the great test of battle
Candidates must compete in a trial of skill

Test

Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Each test every light her muse will bear.

Test

That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,At once the source, and end, and test of art.

Test

Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.

Test

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a testBetwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Test

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.

Test

A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results.
I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation.
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune,Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace,Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.

Test

A witness.
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Test

The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

Test

The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

Test

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

Test

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.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

Test

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

Test

To administer a test to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.

Test

To make a testament, or will.

Test

Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc;
The test was standardized on a large sample of students

Test

The act of testing something;
In the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately
He called each flip of the coin a new trial

Test

The act of undergoing testing;
He survived the great test of battle
Candidates must compete in a trial of skill

Test

Trying something to find out about it;
A sample for ten days free trial
A trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain

Test

A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge;
When the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions

Test

A hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

Test

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
This approach has been tried with good results
Test this recipe

Test

Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
Screen the blood for the HIV virus

Test

Examine someone's knowledge of something;
The teacher tests us every week
We got quizzed on French irregular verbs

Test

Show a certain characteristic when tested;
He tested positive for HIV

Test

Achieve a certain score or rating on a test;
She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools

Test

Determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

Test

Undergo a test;
She doesn't test well

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