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== 'Better place to "test" out new code is in the sandbox.--User:maveric149

Found!

Thank you - Gianfranco ==

No problem, Gianfranco. --User:maveric149

Yeah, yeah, I know, this is a defintion. But a newish wikipedian made this page by mistake, so I added 1913 Websters def. -- I will translate, wikify and add to the main page later

Test \Test\, n. [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t[^e]t,

    from L. testum an earthen vessel; akin to testa a piece of
    burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for tersta,
    and akin to torrere to patch, terra earth (cf. Thirst, and
    Terrace), but cf. Zend tasta cup. Cf. Test a shell,
    Testaceous, Tester a covering, a coin, Testy,
    T[^e]te-[`a]-t[^e]te.]
    1. (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious
       metals are melted for trial and refinement.
 
             Our ingots, tests, and many mo.       --Chaucer.
 
    2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical
       examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's
       assertions to a test. ``Bring me to the test. --Shak.
 
    3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
 
             Each test every light her muse will bear. --Dryden.
 
    4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its
       genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
 
             Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once
             the source, and end, and test of art. --Pope.
 
    5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment;
       ground of admission or exclusion.
 
             Our test excludes your tribe from benefit. --Dryden.
 
    6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
 
             Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt
             indifferent writing and the best?     --Dryden.
 
    7. (Chem.) 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.
 
    Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the English Parliament
       prescribing a form of oath and declaration against
       transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and
       military, were formerly obliged to take within six months
       after their admission to office. They were obliged also to
       receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church
       of England. --Blackstone.
 
    Test object (Optics), an object which tests the power or
       quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a
       certain degree of excellence in the instrument to
       determine its existence or its peculiar texture or
       markings.
 
    Test paper.
       (a) (Chem.) Paper prepared for use in testing for certain
           substances by being saturated with a reagent which
           changes color in some specific way when acted upon by
           those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by
           acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned
           brown by alkalies, etc.
       (b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or
           comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in
           which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of
           proving handwriting.
 
    Test tube. (Chem.)
       (a) A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for
           heating solutions and for performing ordinary
           reactions.
       (b) A graduated tube.
 
    Syn: Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment;
         trial.
 
    Usage: Test, Trial. Trial is the wider term; test is a
           searching and decisive trial. It is derived from the
           Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early
           applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in which
           metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the
           peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or
           criterion of the most decisive kind.
 
                 I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose
                 trial shall better publish his commediation.
                                                   --Shak.
 
                 Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of
                 fortune, Like purest gold, that tortured in the
                 furnace, Comes out more bright, and brings forth
                 all its weight.                   --Addison.

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Protected due to vandalbot attack. Ask the protector-Administrator for details. 68.39.174.238 03:37, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Protection

I've protected this page because multiple vandals using different IPs keep vandalizing this. Any admin who feels this has been protected long enough can unprotect, or if no one does, I'll do so tomorrow. -Greg Asche (talk) 03:37, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay, unprotected for now. -Greg Asche (talk) 22:13, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is this testing?

Is this page a test page? 90.227.41.167 12:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)