Test vs Current - 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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, 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
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
(electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
:* Symbol': '''''I (inclined upper case letter "I")
:* Units:
:: SI: ampere (A)
:: CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
A tendency or a course of events.
Existing or occurring at the moment.
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, title= Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
* Arbuthnot
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, title= (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
* Gower
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between test and current
is that test is while current is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.As an adjective current is
existing or occurring at the moment.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
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- 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.
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* *current
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction ): flow, stream * (time rate of flow of electric charge ): electric current * (tendency or course of events ): flow, stream, tendencyDerived terms
* undercurrentAdjective
(en-adj)Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
- That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.
- To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.