Chapter vs Test - What's the difference?
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One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
A section of a social or religious body.
#An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
#An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
#A community of canons or canonesses.
#A bishop's council.
#An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
#:(Robertson)
#A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
#A chapter house.
#:(Burrill)
A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
*1866 , (Wilkie Collins), , Book the Last, Chapter I,
*:"You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
*1911 , (Bram Stoker), , Ch.26,
*:she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
A decretal epistle.
:(Ayliffe)
(lb) A location or compartment.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
To divide into chapters.
To put into a chapter.
To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
* 2001 , John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany ,
* 2006 , Thomas R. Schombert, Diaries of a Soldier: Nightmares from Within ,
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
A , trial.
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(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
A Test match.
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars]] and sea urchins.
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
* Dryden
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To .
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
* Washington
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
(obsolete) A witness.
* Ld. Berners
As nouns the difference between chapter and test
is that chapter is one of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided while test is .As a verb chapter
is to divide into chapters.chapter
English
Alternative forms
* chaptre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* chapter and verse * chapter house * to the end of the chapterSee also
* overarchingExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)page 117,
- If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
page 100,
- "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."
Anagrams
* * * *test
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see terra, thirst.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Synonyms
* (challenge) challenge, trial * (sense) quiz, examinationAntonyms
* (challenge) breeze * (sense) recessDerived terms
* acid test * babysitter test * blood test * flame test * inkblot test * litmus test * nose test * Rorschach test * smell test * smoke test * sniff test * stress test * test case * tester * test tubeDescendants
* German: (l) * Dutch: (l)Verb
(en verb)- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- 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.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
- to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
* German: (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tester, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.