Clues for the word "TEST"

We've had 524 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1488 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on April 14, 2025.

Definition of test

n. - A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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. - 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.
n. - Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
n. - Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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.
v. t. - To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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 examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
n. - A witness.
v. i. - To make a testament, or will.
n. - Alt. of Testa