Challenge
(n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind |
Challenge
(n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. |
Challenge
(n.) A claim or demand. |
Challenge
(n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. |
Challenge
(n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act |
Challenge
(n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. |
Challenge
(n.) To call to a contest of any kind |
Challenge
(n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. |
Challenge
(n.) To claim as due |
Challenge
(n.) To censure |
Challenge
(n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines) |
Challenge
(n.) To take exception to |
Challenge
(n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. |
Challenge
(n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. |
Challenge
(v. i.) To assert a right |
Patch
(n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. |
Patch
(n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach |
Patch
(n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty. |
Patch
(n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. |
Patch
(n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch |
Patch
(n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. |
Patch
(n.) A paltry fellow |
Patch
(v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like |
Patch
(v. t.) To mend with pieces |
Patch
(v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. |
Patch
(v. t.) To make of pieces or patches |
Test
(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. |
Test
(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel |
Test
(n.) Means of trial |
Test
(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness |
Test
(n.) Discriminative characteristic |
Test
(n.) Judgment |
Test
(n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate |
Test
(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel |
Test
(v. t.) To put to the proof |
Test
(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent |
Test
(n.) A witness. |
Test
(v. i.) To make a testament, or will. |
Test
(n.) Alt. of Testa |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
bandage
patch | a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body |
| estradiol patch | a transdermal patch that allows estradiol to be absorbed into the blood stream, used in treating estrogen deficiency and in hormone replacement therapy |
eyepatch
patch | a protective cloth covering for an injured eye |
kitchen garden
vegetable garden
vegetable patch | a small garden where vegetables are grown |
mend
patch darn | sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment), her stockings had several mends |
| patch | a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole |
| patch pocket | a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment |
| shoulder patch | patch worn on the shoulder of a military uniform to indicate rank |
temporary hookup
patch | a connection intended to be used for a limited time |
| 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 |
transdermal patch
skin patch | a medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream |
spot speckle
dapple
patch
fleck
maculation | a small contrasting part of something, a bald spot, a leopard's spots, a patch of clouds, patches of thin ice, a fleck of red |
soul patch
Attilio | a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin |
Peyer's patch
Peter's gland | any of several lymph nodes in the walls of the intestines near the junction of the ileum and colon |
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 |