probeta

Phonetic: "/test/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A challenge, trial.

Definition: A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Definition: (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

Definition: A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

Definition: (normally “Test”) A Test match.

Definition: The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.

Definition: Testa; seed coat.

Definition: Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Phonetic: "/test/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To challenge.

Example: Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

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

Definition: To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

Example: to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument

Definition: (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

Definition: To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.

Definition: To be shown to be by test.

Example: He tested positive for cancer.

Definition: To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

Example: to test a solution by litmus paper

Phonetic: "/tjuːb/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

Definition: An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

Example: A tube of toothpaste.

Definition: (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

Example: I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.

Definition: A tin can containing beer.

Definition: A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

Definition: A television.

Example: Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?

Definition: An idiot.

Phonetic: "/tjuːb/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

Example: She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.

Definition: To ride an inner tube.

Example: They tubed down the Colorado River.

Definition: To intubate.

Example: The patient was tubed.