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testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)

  1. Difficult; tough.

    • 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC‎[1]:

      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.

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.

the act of conducting a test

testing

  1. present participle and gerund of test

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”).

  • Hyphenation: tes‧ting

testing

  1. to test someone or something

testing

  1. a testing; the act of conducting a test

For quotations using this term, see Citations:testing.

Unadapted borrowing from English testing.

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

testing (first-person possessive testingku, second-person possessive testingmu, third-person possessive testingnya)

  1. testing.
    Synonyms: pengujian, percobaan