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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
testing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nuclear testing
▪ a nuclear testing area
testing ground
▪ Eastern Europe has become a testing ground for high-speed privatization.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ground
▪ The model was finished in 1794 and Murdock looked for a testing ground.
▪ The transfer of the Kit to Novaya Zemlya, a major nuclear testing ground, was carried out in secret.
▪ Because of the interesting, usually technical, demands made on the performers, their ballets often become testing grounds for future soloists.
▪ In brief, it was a fertile testing ground for those wishing to demonstrate prowess in their mastery of econometric technique.
procedure
▪ The row centres on a technicality - whether the proper testing procedure was carried out.
▪ Groove Tubes are special because of our unique testing procedures, not because of the way they were built.
▪ But he said Yates denied taking steroids and that there had been irregularities in the testing procedures.
▪ Market testing procedures in central Government have often taken far too long.
▪ Many companies participating in Compacts will use a variety of testing procedures in order to select appropriate candidates for jobs.
▪ Most of the electrophysiological properties are only apparent when appropriate testing procedures are used.
▪ Whereas the scientific enterprise is legitimated by agreed testing procedures, the theological enterprise has been characterized by dogmatism.
▪ This covers the testing procedures and assessment criteria to be applied before licences can be granted.
programme
▪ He disparaged the customs service testing programme as mere display, a gesture of solidarity with the President's anti-drug campaign.
programmes
▪ Generally Helen would extrapolate on one of the more testing programmes coming out of her department.
▪ However, local testing programmes can give information on individual schools.
▪ More central to the concerns of this book is the question of whether testing programmes are a suitable procedure for accountability.
▪ In terms of sampling the curriculum, examinations do rather better than most testing programmes.
▪ Deciding whether testing programmes are economic in their use of resources is a more difficult problem.
▪ Some aid will go to paying for practical steps already taken, like fish testing programmes.
▪ As a way of ascertaining whether minimum levels had been achieved state-wide testing programmes were initiated.
▪ Many of the states have linked the testing programmes to the minimum competency testing mentioned in Chapter 1.
time
▪ The last two or three years have been a testing time for the 180 people who work at Angered.
▪ When testing time arrives, you have a choice.
▪ It is a testing time for Stockton.
▪ Nizan's apprenticeship was a testing time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they were not allowed to take readings off the island of Novaya Zemlya, a former Soviet nuclear testing site.
▪ Groove Tubes are special because of our unique testing procedures, not because of the way they were built.
▪ However, local testing programmes can give information on individual schools.
▪ In goal, Peter Liles gave a solid performance under very testing conditions.
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Testing

Test \Test\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tested; p. pr. & vb. n. Testing.]

  1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

  2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

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

  3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

  4. To administer a test[8] to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.

Testing

Testing \Test"ing\, n.

  1. The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.

  2. (Metal.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.

    Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

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testing

  1. difficult, tough n. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving. v

  2. (present participle of test English)

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testing

  1. n. the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons"

  2. an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

  3. the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned [syn: examination]

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Usage examples of "testing".

In connection with all these lines of fuel testing, certain research work, both chemical and physical, is carried on to determine the true composition and properties of the different varieties of coal, the changes in the transformation from peat to lignite, from lignite to bituminous coal, and from bituminous to anthracite coal, and the chemical and physical processes in combustion.

The usual reason for antibody testing is as a check to see if somebody needs to renew their shots.

Also, there are situations where testing for the antibody to a pathogen suspected of causing a condition can make sense, given the right circumstances.

Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.

Australia, as in other Commonwealth nations, ballistics and blast testing on human cadavers is not allowed.

It was decked out with medical gear, urine and excreta reservoirs, decontamination kits, and testing paraphernalia.

But the instincts of our common humanity indignantly remonstrate against the testing of clumsy or unimportant hypotheses by prodigal experimentation, or MAKING THE TORTURE OF ANIMALS AN EXHIBITION TO ENLARGE A MEDICAL SCHOOL, or for the entertainment of students--not one in fifty of whom can turn it to any profitable account.

In 1986 researchers filed a patent application for a method of testing the levels of homocysteine, an amino acid, in the blood.

A bright lance was brought, and the mantled lord hefted it, testing its balance as he turned toward Bevan.

I asked the man at the cash register what he thought about the underground burst soon to be set off in the Manzanita Mountains, not too far away, now that the Russians had resumed testing.

Soldier walked his charger through very carefully, testing the marish with his lance as they went.

Frankie gently flexed and extended the knee, rocking the joint and testing for any abnormal movement, but there was none, pointing to a meniscal tear rather than any ligament injury.

Influence of Metalloids, Heat Treatment, Special Steels, Microstructure, Testing, and Specifications.

Parchment Paper and Parchment Slates -- Double and Triple Osmotic Parchment -- Utilising Waste Parchment Paper -- Parchmented Linen and Cotton -- Parchment Millboard -- Imitation Horn and Ivory from Parchment Paper -- Imitation Parchment Paper -- Artificial Parchment -- Testing the Sulphuric Acid.

It meant that under the licensing agreement between Felding-Roth Pharmaceuticals and Laboratoires Gironde-Chimie, American testing of Montayne would now begin.