Test vs Abc - What's the difference?
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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.
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(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
(obsolete) A witness.
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ABC (B), a Belgian car market.
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African Basketball Confederation.
(emergency medicine) Airway, breathing, and circulation.
Alcoholic beverage control.
(aviation) (Advance Booking Charter)
already been chewed, as in chewing gum.
American Book Center.
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(medical) Antigen binding capacity.
anything but Chardonnay: a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
(Japan) Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad.
atomic, biological, and chemical.
Aural brevity code.
Australian-born Chinese.
(obsolete) Australian Broadcasting Commission. .
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(geography) Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul, satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil.
(US, usually, plural only, uncountable) The alphabet.
(obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
(obsolete) A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
The fundamentals of any subject.
(UK, rail transport) A British alphabetized guidebook for trains and their stations.
English three-letter words
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As nouns the difference between test and abc
is that test is while abc is abc.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.
External links
* *abc
English
Alternative forms
* (noun) abseyInitialism
(Initialism) (head)See also
* ABC Islands * NBC * (American-born Chinese) CBC * (American Broadcasting Company) NBC, CBS, PBS, NPRNoun
(en noun)- Do you know your ABC s?
- the ABC of finance
