TEST

Test

Andrew James Robert Patrick Martin was a Canadian professional wrestler. Under the ring name Test, Martin wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation from 1998–2004, and 2006–2007. He last worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name "The Punisher" Andrew Martin.

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test

Noun

  1. A challenge, trial.
  2. An examination, given often during the academic term.
  3. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  4. A Test match.
  5. The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
  6. Testa; seed coat.
  7. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A witness.

Noun (etymology 3)

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

Verb

  1. To challenge.
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  2. 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
  3. To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
  4. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
  5. To be shown to be by test.
  6. To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To make a testament, or will.

Verb (etymology 3)

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


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