Trial vs. Test
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
