testing
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)
- difficult, tough
- 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC[1]:
- England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.
Noun
testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)
- The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
- 2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke
- The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.
- 2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke
Hyponyms
Translations
the act of conducting a test
References
Verb
testing
Anagrams
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Etymology
From English testing, present participle of test, from Middle English test, teste, borrowed from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tes‧ting
Verb
testing
- to test someone or something
Noun
testing
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:testing.
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