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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• (South African) IPA^(key): /test/

Etymology 1

From Middle English test, teste, 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”). See terra, thirst.

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. A challenge, trial.
2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Synonyms

• (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
• (academics: examination): examination, quiz

Antonyms

• (academics: examination): recess

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. To challenge.

   Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. 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

   • September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address

     Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
   • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development

     It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.

7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

   to test a solution by litmus paper

Descendants

• German: testen

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. (obsolete) A witness.
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Related terms

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Etymology 3

Clipping of testosterone.

Noun

test (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, body building) testosterone

Further reading

• test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• test in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets

Breton

Noun

test

1. witness

Catalan

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). Compare Spanish tiesto

Noun

test m (plural testos)

1. flowerpot
2. piece of clay

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test (exam or challenge)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?st]
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test m inan

1. test

Declension

Derived terms

• testovat
• testovací
• testový

Further reading

• test in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• test in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English test.

Noun

test

1. test (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “test” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. test

Synonyms

• experiment
• proef

Derived terms

• geluidstest
• piepjestest
• shuttleruntest
• sneltest
• testen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tes

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. A test, an earthen bowl or pot.
2. A test, a cupel (used in smelting).

Derived terms

• vergiettest
• vuurtest

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tessie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. a test, a tryout, a review

Derived terms

• tester

Further reading

• “test” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??t]
• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

test (plural testek)

1. (anatomy) body
2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (invariable)

1. test

Ladin

Noun

test m (plural [please provide])

1. text

Latvian

Verb

test (?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??)

1. to beat
2. to knock about
3. to flog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

Related terms

• teste

Etymology 2

Verb

test

1. imperative of teste

References

• “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

References

• “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testum.

Noun

test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

1. (uncountable) clay
2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

Descendants

• French: test
• French: têt
• ? Middle English: test
  • English: test (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: test
• ? Middle High German: test
  • German: Test

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (test)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

test m inan

1. test

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French test.

Noun

test n (plural teste)

1. test

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têst/

Noun

t?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. test (challenge, trial)
2. test (academics)
3. test (product examination)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?test/, [?t?est?]

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test

   Synonym: prueba

Swedish

Noun

test c or n

1. a test, an examination, a trial
2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
3. a piece of hair c

Declension

Synonyms

• examen
• försök
• experiment
• prov
• skrivning
• tofs
• tuss

Related terms

• betatest
• hårtest
• testa

Anagrams

• sett

Turkish

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?test/
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

1. test

Declension

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalz?n? (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal(o)s-, *gl?s-, *golH-so- (“voice, cry”). Cognate with Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”), Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”), German dialectal kallen (“to talk; talk loudly or too much”), Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”), Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”), Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”), Welsh galw (“to call, demand”), Polish g?os (“voice”), Lithuanian gal?sas (“echo”), Russian ????? (golos, “voice”), Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôl, IPA^(key): /k??l/, [k?o?],
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?l/, [k???]
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /k?l/, [k???]
• Homophone: coll (with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

call (plural calls)

1. A telephone conversation; a phone call.

2. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

3. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
4. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

5. A cry or shout.

6. A decision or judgement.

7. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

8. A beckoning or summoning.
9. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

10. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
11. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
12. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
13. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
    • 1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice,^[1] Harper & Row, ?ISBN:

      page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”

      page 56: “[...] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

    • 2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing, ?ISBN:

      page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: [...]. You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.

      page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.

    • 2008, Jamal M. Bullocks [et al.], Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, ?ISBN, page ix:

      We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
14. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
15. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

17. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
18. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
19. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
20. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
21. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
22. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
23. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
24. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or call'd)

1. To use one's voice.
   1. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
   2. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
   3. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
   4. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.

   5. (transitive) To declare in advance.

   6. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
   7. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

2. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
   1. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
   2. To stop at a station or port.

3. To name, identify or describe.
   1. (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
   2. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
   3. (transitive) To predict.

   4. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
      • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:

        The whole army is called 700,000 men

   5. (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
   6. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
4. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
   1. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
   2. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
   3. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

   4. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

   5. (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

5. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
6. (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
7. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
8. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
9. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

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Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb call had the form callest, and had calledst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form calleth was used.

Synonyms

• (cry or shout): holler, yell; see also Thesaurus:shout
• (contact by telephone): drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell; see also Thesaurus:telephone
• (rouse from sleep): wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (name or refer to): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (predict): augur, foretell; see also Thesaurus:predict

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?/

Etymology 1

From Latin callis (“alley, narrow street, passageway”)

Noun

call m (plural calls)

1. passageway

Etymology 2

From Latin callum.

Noun

call m (uncountable)

1. corn

Derived terms

• call de la mà
• callera

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hebrew ?????? (qahál, “assembly, synagogue”).

Noun

call m (plural calls)

1. Jewish quarter

   Synonym: jueria

Further reading

• “call” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• cál

Noun

call m (genitive singular call)

1. call, need
2. claim, right

Declension

Derived terms

• gan chall (“needlessly”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kal??/

Noun

call m (genitive singular caill)

1. Ulster form of coll (“hazel”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "call" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “call” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “call” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

call m (genitive singular calla, plural callaidhean)

1. verbal noun of caill
2. loss
3. waste

Derived terms

• call cumhachd

Mutation

Welsh

Adjective

call (feminine singular call, plural call, equative called, comparative callach, superlative callaf)

1. wise, sensible, rational

   Synonyms: doeth, deallus

Derived terms

• callineb (“wisdom, rationality”)
• callio (“to become wise”)

Mutation