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Witness vs Testa - What's the difference?

witness | testa |

As nouns the difference between witness and testa

is that witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony while testa is head.

As a verb witness

is to furnish proof of, to show.

witness

English

Noun

(es)
  • Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
    • She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.
  • * Shakespeare
    • May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
  • One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
    • As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thyself art witness I am betrothed.
  • * R. Hall
    • Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
  • Someone called to give evidence in a court.
    • The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
  • Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52
    • Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .

    Derived terms

    * expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witness

    Verb

    (es)
  • To furnish proof of, to show.
    • This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
  • * 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7
  • To take as evidence.
  • *
  • To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
    • He witnessed the accident.
  • * R. Hall
    • This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
  • * Marshall
    • General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
  • To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
  • * 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842
    • Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
  • To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
    • to witness a bond or a deed

    Synonyms

    * certify

    Anagrams

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    testa

    English

    Noun

  • (botany) A seed coat.
    • The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.
  • * 1840 , James Scott Bowerbank, A History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay , page 30,
    • The seeds are furnished with a reticulated testa , very much in appearance like that of the seeds of two closely-allied pericarps in the cabinet of my friend Mr. Ward, of Wellclose-square, the names of which I have been unable to obtain, but which present strong evidence of belonging to the Malvaceæ .
  • * 1969 , C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses'', Alison Smith, ''Advances in Virus Research , Volume 14, page 224,
    • In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found that, in plants infected with bean southern mosaic virus before blossoming, the virus was present in nearly 100% of the testae and endosperms of seeds of both varieties, but could not be detected in the embryos.
  • * 1977 , Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology , page 354,
    • Thus, two conditions must be satisfied for the testas' to have this effect: contact between the '''testas''' and the radicle, and the presence of at least half of the ' testas .
  • * 2005 , D. W. Dickson, D. De Waele, Nematode Parasites of Peanut'', Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, ''Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture , page 419,
    • A.[Aphelenchoides] arachidis is a parasite of pods, testae, roots and hypocotyls, but not the cotyledons, embryos or other parts of the plant (Bos, 1977a; Bridge et al., 1977).
  • * 2007 , J. Smartt, Evolution of American Phaseolus beans under domestication'', Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby (editors), ''The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals , page 458,
    • One of the most remarkable features of cultivated beans is the enormous range of testa colours and patterns which can be found.
  • (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.

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