testing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/, [ˈtʰɛs.tɪŋ]

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• (without the ng-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.tɪnɡ/, [ˈtɛs.tɪŋɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
• Hyphenation: tes‧ting

Adjective

testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)

1. Difficult; tough.

   A testing time lies ahead for the new administration.

   • 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 October 2011:

     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.

Derived terms

• testingly
• untesting

Noun

testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)

1. 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.

Hyponyms

• A/B testing
• alpha testing
• animal testing
• beta testing
• big bang testing
• black-box testing
• continuous testing
• DNA testing
• fuzz testing
• genetic testing
• gray-box testing
• grey-box testing
• hypothesis testing
• integration testing
• keyword-driven testing
• Kleenex testing
• model-based testing
• model-driven testing
• mutation testing
• nuclear testing
• PAT testing
• portable appliance testing
• psychological testing
• reality testing
• regression testing
• risk-based testing
• sandwich testing
• sanity testing
• spark testing
• statistical hypothesis testing
• surge testing
• testing clause
• testing ground
• toxicology testing
• type testing
• unit testing
• white-box testing
• wind tunnel testing

Derived terms

• antitesting
• backtesting
• immunotesting
• posttesting
• serotesting

Translations

the act of conducting a test

• Belarusian: тэсці́раванне n (tescíravannje)
• Czech: testování (cs) n
• Finnish: testaus (fi), koestus (fi)
• French: test (fr) m
• Italian: prova (it) f
• Polish: testowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: teste (pt)
• Russian: тести́рование (ru) n (testírovanije)
• Spanish: prueba (es) f
• Turkish: test etme (tr)
• Ukrainian: тестува́ння n (testuvánnja)

References

• Testing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

testing

1. present participle and gerund of test

Derived terms

• testing effect
• testing, testing, testing testing

Anagrams

• setting, tingest

Cebuano

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

1. to test someone or something

Noun

testing

1. a testing; the act of conducting a test

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English testing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛst̪ɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: tès‧ting

Noun

testing (plural testing-testing)

1. testing

   Synonyms: pengujian, percobaan

Further reading

• “testing”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English testing. Compare Cebuano testing.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtestiŋ/ [ˈt̪ɛs.t̪ɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -estiŋ
• Syllabification: tes‧ting

Noun

testing (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. trial; testing; test; attempt

   Synonyms: ato, pag-ato, tangka, pruweba, pagpruweba, subok

2. challenge

   Synonym: pagsubok

3. sampling; tasting (of the taste of food)

   Synonyms: tikim, pagtikim

4. trying on of clothes, footwear, etc.

   Synonyms: sukat, pagsusukat

Derived terms

• itesting
• testingan