(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
(n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
(n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
(n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
(n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
(n.) A witness.
(v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
(n.) Alt. of Testa
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(4) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(5) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(6) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(7) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(8) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(9) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(10) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(11) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(12) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(13) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(14) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(15) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(16) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(17) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(18) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(19) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(20) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
Winnow
Definition:
(v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Winnowing by embiotocids is characterized by premaxillary protrusions repeated cyclically with reduced oral gape.
(2) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
(3) Winnowed down by sector , the figures narrow further.
(4) evangelical votes chart In 2016, religious activists and political operatives insist, the support of Christian voters will be critical in the early-voting states of Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical leaders believe they can best winnow a deep Republican field to take on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner.
(5) Or, before the study began, early deaths may have winnowed susceptibles from the two older cohorts.
(6) It’s all about how much of a horrible, fascist, racist, misogynist Trump is.” On her own feed, Constantin found herself winnowing down her friends in order to avoid arguments.
(7) Several surfperches (Embiotocidae), including the black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, exhibit a specialized prey handling behavior known as winnowing, in which ingested food and non-nutritive debris are separated within the oropharyngeal cavity.
(8) A process that was intended to winnow out the unusually crowded Republican field before primary voting begins in February looks likely to keep pundits guessing to the last: chewing up and spitting out new winners and losers almost every time they take to the stage.
(9) Scott Walker shocks Republicans with dropout call to gang up on Donald Trump Read more Afterwards, on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele kindly speculated that Walker might also have been throwing a bone to his fellow Wisconsinite and current Chairman Reince Priebus, who wants to winnow the primary field.
(10) Under these circumstances low fitness genotypes are winnowed from the population by natural selection.
(11) The neglect of the national game has been deep and persistent and the winnowing of our skills base complete and utter.
(12) The respondent and co-respondent do not appear, and we have to winnow the matter as best we may.
(13) But the straw poll’s winnowing effect also has advantages – especially for those on the social conservative wing of the party.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arctic warming hits new record in 2015, says ocean watchdog Noaa – video Not only is the ice winnowing away, it is becoming younger – Noaa’s analysis of satellite data shows that 70% of the ice pack in March was composed of first-year ice, with just 3% of the ice older than four years.
(15) 102 species and 2 species varieties belonging to 36 genera were collected from combine harvester wheat and sorghum dusts and from the atmosphere of hay or winnow sites.
(16) Winnowing is believed to play an important role in the partitioning of food resources among sympatric embiotocids.
(17) We have come to the end of privacy; our private lives, as our grandparents would have recognised them, have been winnowed away to the realm of the shameful and secret.
(18) Hand it over to private companies and they will swoop in with their efficiency, their economies of scale, their incentives and their competitiveness, winnowing it down into a dart of perfectly targeted public spending.
(19) That private sense of: "You're someone I would like to spend time with", with as opposed to I winnowed you out in a group of a lot of other people.
(20) A post-mortem by party officials after Romney lost the 2012 presidential election to Barack Obama blamed a protracted primary campaign among Republicans for weakening their eventual candidate and recommended a shorter winnowing period.