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Test is a synonym of standard.


As nouns the difference between test and standard

is that test is while standard is .

test

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; see terra, thirst.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  • A , trial.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) 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.}}
  • (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
  • Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
    Synonyms
    * (challenge) challenge, trial * (sense) quiz, examination
    Antonyms
    * (challenge) breeze * (sense) recess
    Derived 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 tube
    Descendants
    * German: (l) * Dutch: (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  • To .
  • Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  • 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
  • * Washington
  • Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
  • (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= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
  • (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
  • to test a solution by litmus paper
    Descendants
    * German: (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tester, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A witness.
  • * Ld. Berners
  • Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a testament, or will.
  • standard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
  • # A level of quality or attainment.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • # Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
  • #* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech
  • #* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
  • # A musical work of established popularity.
  • # A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
  • # The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
  • #* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
  • By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
  • # A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
  • A vertical pole with something at its apex.
  • # An object supported in an upright position, such as a .
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , chapter=Foreword, title= The China Governess , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
  • # The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
  • #* Fairfax
  • His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
  • # One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
  • # Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
  • # A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
  • #* Sir W. Temple
  • In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.
  • # The sheth of a plough.
  • A manual transmission vehicle.
  • (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
  • (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
  • A large drinking cup.
  • (Greene)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
  • (of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.
  • Having recognized excellence or authority.
  • standard''' works in history; '''standard authors
  • Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
  • (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
  • As normally supplied (not optional).
  • Antonyms

    * nonstandard

    Derived terms

    * bog standard * gold standard * double standard * standard-bearer * standard fare * standard gauge * standard lamp * standard language * Standard Model * standard of living * standard poodle * standard time * standard transmission * standard deviation * time standard