Hest vs. Test — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hest and Test
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Hest
Command; behest.
Test
A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something; a trial
A test of one's eyesight.
Subjecting a hypothesis to a test.
A test of an athlete's endurance.
Hest
(obsolete) Command, injunction.
Test
A series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability.
Hest
Command; precept; injunction.
Let him that yields obey the victor's hest.
Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full.
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Test
A basis for evaluation or judgment
"A test of democratic government is how Congress and the president work together" (Haynes Johnson).
Test
(Chemistry) A physical or chemical change by which a substance may be detected or its properties ascertained.
Test
A cupel.
Test
A hard external covering, as that of certain amoebas, dinoflagellates, and sea urchins.
Test
To subject to a test; try
Tested the pen by scribbling on scrap paper.
Testing job applicants.
Test
To reveal the degree of (a given quality) in someone or something by or as if by means of a test
The experiment tested the rats' ability to solve spatial problems. The long war tested the country's resolve.
Test
To identify the presence or amount of one or more substances in
Tested the water for lead.
Test
To identify the amount of (a substance) in something
Tested the nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil.
Test
To ascertain the properties of
Tested the steel for hardness and tensile strength.
Test
To assay (metal) in a cupel.
Test
To undergo a test.
Test
To administer a test
Test for acid content.
Test for the presence of an antibody.
Test
To achieve a score or rating on tests
Tested high on the entrance exams.
Test
To exhibit a given characteristic when subjected to a test
Test positive for the tubercle bacillus.
Test
A challenge, trial.
Test
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Test
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
Test
A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
Test
A Test match.
Test
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
Test
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
Test
(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Test
(obsolete) A witness.
Test
Testosterone
Test
To challenge.
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
Test
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
To test the soundness of a principle
To test the validity of an argument
Test
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
Test
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
Test
(copulative) To be shown to be by test.
He tested positive for cancer.
Test
(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
To test a solution by litmus paper
Test
To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
Test
To make a testament, or will.
Test
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots, tests, and many mo.
Test
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
Test
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Each test every light her muse will bear.
Test
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.
Test
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
Test
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a testBetwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Test
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
A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results.
I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation.
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.
Test
A witness.
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
Test
The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
Test
The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
Test
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test
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.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Test
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
Test
To administer a test to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.
Test
To make a testament, or will.
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
Test
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
Test
The act of undergoing testing;
He survived the great test of battle
Candidates must compete in a trial of skill
Test
Trying something to find out about it;
A sample for ten days free trial
A trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain
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
Test
A hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
Test
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
This approach has been tried with good results
Test this recipe
Test
Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
Screen the blood for the HIV virus
Test
Examine someone's knowledge of something;
The teacher tests us every week
We got quizzed on French irregular verbs
Test
Show a certain characteristic when tested;
He tested positive for HIV
Test
Achieve a certain score or rating on a test;
She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools
Test
Determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
Test
Undergo a test;
She doesn't test well
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