To lay down a challenge; to provide a test of commitment (often one which carries a high risk) to a cause.
To create a real or artificial boundary or distinction between (two places, people or things).
To indicate the threshold or level above which something will become unacceptable or will provoke a response; to create a boundary and imply or declare that its crossing will provoke a (negative) response.
To challenge.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To be shown to be by test.
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
An examination, given often during the academic term.
A challenge, trial.
A Test match.
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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Testa; seed coat.
The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.