| means test | an inquiry into the financial position of someone applying for financial aid |
test
trial
run | the act of testing something, in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately, he called each flip of the coin a new trial |
clinical trial
clinical test | a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects, in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use |
preclinical trial
preclinical test
preclinical phase | a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects, conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial |
| test trial | the act of undergoing testing, he survived the great test of battle, candidates must compete in a trial of skill |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
MOT
MOT test
Ministry of Transportation test | a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes |
| soil conservation | protection of soil against erosion or deterioration |
test mental test
mental testing
psychometric test | any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc, the test was standardized on a large sample of students |
intelligence test
IQ test | a psychometric test of intelligence, they used to think that intelligence is what an intelligence test tests |
| Stanford-Binet test | revision of the Binet-Simon Scale |
| personality test | any test that is intended to assess personality |
projective test
projective device
projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
Rorschach
Rorschach test
inkblot test | a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots, subjects state what they see in the inkblot |
Thematic Apperception Test
TAT | a projective technique using black-and-white pictures, subjects tell a story about each picture |
| sub-test | one of a battery of related tests |
burying
burial | concealing something under the ground |
test case
test suit | a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent |
| test | a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins |
| soil pipe | drain that conveys liquid waste from toilets, etc. |
| test bed | a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions |
| test equipment | equipment required to perform a test |
| test paper | paper impregnated with an indicator for use in chemical tests |
| test range | a range for conducting tests |
test rocket
research rocket
test instrument vehicle | a rocket fired for test purposes |
test room
testing room | a room in which tests are conducted |
| test tube | glass tube closed at one end |
diagnostic test
diagnostic assay | an assay conducted for diagnostic purposes |
| agglutination test | a blood test used to identify unknown antigens, blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen, used in tissue matching and blood grouping and diagnosis of infections |
| heterophil test | a blood test to detect heterophil antibodies that agglutinate sheep red blood cells, positive result indicates infectious mononucleosis |
Widal test
Widal's test | a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections |
cloze procedure
cloze test | a test for diagnosing reading ability, words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks |
fecal occult test
faecal occult test
stool test | a test performed at home in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of blood, used to detect colorectal cancers |
| glucose tolerance test | test of the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates, used in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia and diabetes mellitus |
| complement fixation test | a blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present, used as a diagnostic test |
Wassermann test
Wasserman reaction
Wassermann | a blood test to detect syphilis, a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema, a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection |
| blood test | a serologic analysis of a sample of blood |
| PSA blood test | a blood test that measures levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen that is manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland, men with prostate problems usually have elevated levels of PSA |
Pap test
Papanicolaou test
smear test | a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer |
| paternity test | a test based on blood groups to determine whether a particular man could be the biological father of a particular child, negative results prove he was not the father but positive results show only that he could be |
| PKU test | a test of newborn infants for phenylketonuria |
| pregnancy test | a physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant |
Friedman test
rabbit test | pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit, presence of corpora lutea indicates that the woman is pregnant |
| Queckenstedt's test | a test to determine whether there is a blockage of the spinal canal |
| radioactive iodine test | test of thyroid function in which the patient is given an oral dose of radioactive iodine- |
| radioactive iodine excretion test | radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine excreted in the urine |
radioactive iodine uptake test
RAIU | radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland |
| Rubin test | test to determine the patency or occlusion of the Fallopian tubes |
| skin test | any test to determine immunity or sensitivity to a disease by introducing small amounts on or into the skin |
| Dick test | a skin test to determine your susceptibility to scarlet fever |
| patch test | a test to determine allergic sensitivity by applying small pads soaked with allergen to the unbroken skin |
| Schick test | a skin test for immunity to diphtheria |
| scratch test | a test to determine allergic sensitivity to various substances by applying them to scratches in the skin |
tuberculin test
tuberculin skin test | a skin test to determine past or present infection with the tuberculosis bacterium, based on hypersensitivity of the skin to tuberculin |
| Mantoux test | tuberculin (a derivative of tubercle bacillus) is injected intradermally, a red area appearing - days later signifies an exposure (past or present) to tubercle bacilli and the need for further testing |
| tine test | a tuberculin test in which a disk with several tines bearing tuberculin antigen is used to puncture the skin, development of a hard red area indicates past or present exposure to tubercle bacilli and the need for further testing |
intradermal test
subcutaneous test | a form of skin test in which the suspected allergen is injected into the skin |
| Snellen test | a test of visual acuity using a Snellen chart |
| stress test | a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress |
| treadmill test | a stress test in which the patient walks on a moving treadmill while the heart and breathing rates are monitored |
| acid test | a rigorous or crucial appraisal |
trial
trial run
test tryout | trying something to find out about it, a sample for ten days free trial, a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain |
field trial
field test | a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used |
| alpha test | (computer science) a first test of an experimental product (such as computer software) carried out by the developer |
| beta test | (computer science) a second test of an experimental product (such as computer software) carried out by an outside organization |
| road test | a test to insure that a vehicle is roadworthy |
| test drive | test of the roadworthiness of a vehicle one is considering buying |
| Kendall test | any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) |
proof test copy
trial impression | (printing) an impression made to check for errors |
examination
exam
test | a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge, when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions |
| litmus test | a test that relies on a single indicator, her litmus test for good breeding is whether you split infinitives |
test paper
examination paper
exam paper
question sheet | a written examination |
| test ban | a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons |
test match
match game
matched game | an international championship match |
| Free Soil Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories, merged with the Liberty Party in |
| territory soil | the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state, American troops were stationed on Japanese soil |
cemetery
graveyard
burial site
burial ground
burying ground
memorial park
necropolis | a tract of land used for burials |
| soil profile | a vertical section of soil from the ground surface to the parent rock |
| soil horizon | a layer in a soil profile |
| land ground soil | material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use), the land had never been plowed, good agricultural soil |
| test driver | a driver who drives a motor vehicle to evaluate its performance |
| test pilot | a pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them |
| test-tube baby | a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body, the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus |
| soil bank | land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops, government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land |
| soil erosion | the washing away of soil by the flow of water |
dirt
filth grime
soil
stain
grease
grunge | the state of being covered with unclean things |
alpha-naphthol test
Molisch's test
Molisch test
Molisch reaction | biochemical indicator of the presence of carbohydrates in a solution, if carbohydrates are present a violet ring is formed by reaction with alpha-naphthol in the presence of sulfuric acid |
regur
regur soil | a rich black loam of India |
residual soil
residual clay | the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved |
topsoil
surface soil | the layer of soil on the surface |
| alluvial soil | a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds |
| bog soil | poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation |
| chernozemic soil | a rich black loam of Russia |
desert soil
desertic soil | a type of soil that develops in arid climates |
| soil dirt | the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock |
| soil conditioner | a chemical substance used to improve the structure of the soil and increase its porosity, gypsum can be used as a soil conditioner |
| night soil | human excreta used as fertilizer |
| gilgai soil | soil in the melon holes of Australia |
gumbo
gumbo soil | any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water |
leaf mold
leaf mould
leaf soil | soil composed mainly of decaying leaves |