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vb. (context idiomatic English) To test completely; to exercise the full range of abilities or functions.
Usage examples of "put through its paces".
He and his colleagues had adapted the central processing unit of their computer to take the new experimental chips, and a prototype EKO 6 was ready to be put through its paces.
Once back, it was put through its paces in a vacuum chamber, probed, prodded, and analyzed much as the colonists must have done.
In the invasion flagship, the Robotech Masters watched their new production line of Invid Fighters being put through its paces.
Evidently they had studied everything I had said in debriefing about what the Christmas trees were capable of, and one by one they asked to have the machine put through its paces: extend branches down to the tiniest twiglets, display its recording lenses, speak.
He had earlier noticed her ignoring of Pelham's drunkenness - she was used to men of war -and now he observed her instant recovery from the shock of seeing Pulling's face as Jack Aubrey led him out of the arbour's shade to be presented and the particularly kind way in which she wished him joy of his promotion and asked him to her house that evening - a very small party, just to hear the rehearsal of a quartet: he saw her childish delight when the chelengk was put through its paces and her frank greed when she had it in her hands and she was admiring the big stones at the top.