test

See:
  • a dry run
  • a litmus test
  • acid test
  • acid test, the
  • babysitter test
  • bring (one) to the test
  • cram for a/the test
  • cram for an examination
  • duck test
  • fail the smell test
  • litmus test
  • need (one's) head tested
  • pass the smell test
  • piss test
  • put (someone or something) to the test
  • put somebody/something to the test
  • put to the test
  • red-face test
  • smell test
  • sniff test
  • stand the test of time
  • survive the test of time
  • test bed
  • test for
  • test for (something)
  • test in
  • test in (something or some place)
  • test of time
  • test of time, stood the/passed the
  • test out
  • test the water
  • test the water (waters), to
  • test the water(s)
  • test the water/waters
  • the acid test
  • the Bechdel test
  • tried and tested
  • tried and tested/trusted
  • urine test
  • withstand the test of time
References in classic literature
Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty."
He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.
A Study In Scarlet
And if thou didst, and if the stone should resist so silly a test, that would add nothing to its value or reputation; and if it were broken, as it might be, would not all be lost?
I do not therefore hold her who is virtuous through fear or want of opportunity in the same estimation as her who comes out of temptation and trial with a crown of victory; and so, for these reasons and many others that I could give thee to justify and support the opinion I hold, I am desirous that my wife Camilla should pass this crisis, and be refined and tested by the fire of finding herself wooed and by one worthy to set his affections upon her; and if she comes out, as I know she will, victorious from this struggle, I shall look upon my good fortune as unequalled, I shall be able to say that the cup of my desire is full, and that the virtuous woman of whom the sage says 'Who shall find her?' has fallen to my lot.
Don Quixote
Summerlee declared, with an acid smile, that he fully appreciated the difference between the Thames and the Amazon, which lay in the fact that any assertion about the former could be tested, while about the latter it could not.
The Lost World
Lecount had succeeded in imposing on Miss Garth; and would, in any event, still declare, on the evidence of his own eyes, that the test by the marks on the neck had utterly failed.
The third remained to be tested yet; and the third might succeed.
No Name
To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits of the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides.
Up From Slavery
Having as it were reviewed her kingdom, tested her power, and made sure that everyone was submissive, but that all the same it was dull, Natasha betook herself to the ballroom, picked up her guitar, sat down in a dark corner behind a bookcase, and began to run her fingers over the strings in the bass, picking out a passage she recalled from an opera she had heard in Petersburg with Prince Andrew.
War and Peace
Through a careful examination of the test procedures, we found that the trend change was most likely the result of different test speeds.
Are compounds softer at elevated temperatures?
This study seeks to extend Kitsantas' (2002) work on whether psychology college students' examination scores are influenced by their use of self-regulatory processes during test preparation and performance.
Secondary students' strategies and achievement
Laboratory professionals were specifically trained about the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of test methods in relation to sample type, time between symptom onset and specimen collection, and disease prevalence.
Screening laboratory requests
In another school that I visited, the principal had a consultant work with her staff for 2 days on "Strategies for Increasing Your School's Test Scores." This consultant explained to a group of concerned inner-city, teachers that they need not worry about the students who scored in the bottom quartile or about the students who scored in the top quartile, because the students in the middle had the power to improve the most.
No Child Left Behind: gifted children and school counselors
Fifty-four percent of the sample had had an HIV test within the last year, and 46% had had one longer ago or had never been tested.
Frequency of HIV testing is suboptimal among some men who are at high risk
When colonoscopy first came into use 37 years ago, it was used as a follow-up test after other screening methods yielded abnormal results.
The screen team: less unpleasant colon exams might catch more cancers