Word Finder - tested

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To challenge.

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Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

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

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To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

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to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument

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

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

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To be shown to be by test.

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He tested positive for cancer.

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To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

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to test a solution by litmus paper

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

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To make a testament, or will.

He tested her foot for circulation.

Yes. We tested them.

He tested his new phone by sending Damian and Jule a text. 911.

She had tested her freedom and found it still intact – to a degree.

Jule ignored him and tested his body.

She tested her vision once more.

It is evident that we have in this law a definite prediction that can be tested by experiment.

Rhyn tested the bonds of his cell again until a mage in a brown robe hurried down the hall to repair the damage.

He relaxed and tested the muscles of his arm again, dissatisfied with being injured.

At first they tested to see if the numbers might be the vowels but that assumption didn't seem to work out.

Those units I use have been utilized and tested thousands of times.

It really did hurt to think that Darkyn outright tested others and they failed when it came to her.

She tested the tea Cora made and was thrilled at the rich, sweetened flavor.

Deidre tested them three times but was afraid of pissing off Gabriel by disobeying him so early in the day.

Lori tested the name and glanced from Carmen to Alex.

She rose and tested her legs.

A'Ran tested his injured shoulder.

A grumpy man answered and Dean tested his sweetest voice.

She tested the second, third, and fourth.

We tested them today.

He tested his ability to control the familiar magic.

I tested it on one of the warriors.

The door leading to his father.s corpse was locked, and he tested it.

She'd already tested the lock and found it to be beyond tampering.

They tested the bio-elim field before passing through.

Kris didn't answer, not wanting to think of how that conversation would go with the deity.  He tested his power again.  Kiki was right; they had none.

Jenn stood and tested her body when he disappeared into the kitchen.

The gentleman's agreement between them had been tested and proven solid.

Berzelius tested this prediction.

Rank is nominally determined by merit, as tested by competitive examinations.

Every hypothesis must be tested by an appeal to the facts of life, and modified or abandoned if it will not bear examination, unless we are convinced on genuine evidence that it may for a time be employed as a useful approximation, without prejudice to the later stages of the investigation we are conducting.

Hundreds of varieties have been tested by the state and federal agricultural experiment stations.

Steinmetz's formula may be tested by taking a series of hysteresis curves between different limits of B,' measuring their areas by a pianimeter, and plotting the logarithms of these divided by 47r as ordinates against logarithms of the corresponding maximum values of B as abscissae.

Petya shook himself, jumped up, took a ruble from his pocket and gave it to Likhachev; then he flourished the saber, tested it, and sheathed it.

He had no control of his own powers, and he'd not yet been tested in a confrontation with the man who enslaved him.

You have yet to be tested.

She pushed herself off the bed and tested her body.

He kept his hands behind his back and tasted her, enjoyed her, tested her without pushing either of them over the edge.

His voice was gravelly from lack of use, and his arms and legs felt heavy as he tested them.

By midmorning, Deidre was free.  Katie grimaced as she wrapped the dismembered sleeves of her sweater around her wounds.  Blood soaked the sweater quickly, and she held it over her head.  Even before she stood, she felt woozy.  Deidre tested herself and limped a few feet.  Katie steadied her breathing to keep from dropping to her knees.

She tested the grip of the guy who held her pinned to the wall.

Did the cousins tell you they were tested?

Vallandigham in May, and, although he responded immediately to the call for militia in June, he thought the Conscription Act unnecessary and unconstitutional and urged the president to postpone the draft until its legality could be tested.

The efficacy of this legislation is in its administration, the language in which coloured aliens are usually tested being European.

In the British Postal Telegraph Department all the most important wires are tested every morning between 7.30 and 7.45 A.M., in sections of about 200 miles.

The insulation is again tested, and if no fault is discovered the served core is passed through the sheathing machine, and the iron sheath and the outer covering are laid on.

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

The explicit adoption of this point of view has had the effect of clearing up and rendering definite the older morphological doctrines, which for the most part had no fixed criterion by which they could be tested.

The symptoms of nerve-poisoning are due to the carbolic acid (or its salts) which circulate in the blood after all the sulphates in the blood have been used up in the formation of sulpho-carbolates (hence, during administration of carbolic acid, the urine should frequently be tested for the presence of free sulphates; as long as these occur in the urine, they are present in the blood and there is no danger).

It is at least necessary to distinguish provisionally between a possibly historical framework and narratives which may be of later growth - between the general outlines which only external evidence can test and details which cannot be tested and appear isolated without any cause or devoid of any effect.