Other forms: tests
A test is a set of questions that checks what you have learned. Sit a test.
Taking one is itself among the best ways to learn, which nobody believes. A test measures what it can measure, which is never quite what anybody wanted to know.
1nountestA set of questions that checks what you have learned.
“The test was forty minutes and decided the whole year.”
test is a check.
Also accepted in games: quiz
Latin testu was an earthen pot that metals were tried in. To test a thing was to put it in the crucible and find out what it really was.
Proto-Indo-European
*ters-
Latin
testum — the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot
Old French
test
Middle English
test
English, today
test
Built from
From 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 the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge. afandung.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA