Trial vs. Test

In law, a trial is a coming together of parties to a dispute, to present information (in the form of evidence) in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes. One form of tribunal is a court.

A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something; a trial

a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings

A series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability.

a test of the performance, qualities, or suitability of someone or something

A basis for evaluation or judgment

a person, experience, or situation that tests a person's endurance or forbearance

(Chemistry) A physical or chemical change by which a substance may be detected or its properties ascertained.

test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance

A cupel.

(of a horse, dog, or other animal) compete in trials

A hard external covering, as that of certain amoebas, dinoflagellates, and sea urchins.

A proceeding in which opposing parties in a dispute present evidence and make arguments on the application of the law before a judge or jury

To subject to a test; try

An instance of such a proceeding

To reveal the degree of (a given quality) in someone or something by or as if by means of a test

The act or process of testing, trying, or putting to the proof

To identify the presence or amount of one or more substances in

An instance of such testing, especially as part of a series of tests or experiments

To identify the amount of (a substance) in something

An effort or attempt

To ascertain the properties of

A state of pain or anguish that tests patience, endurance, or belief

To assay (metal) in a cupel.

A trying, troublesome, or annoying person or thing

To undergo a test.

A preliminary competition or test to determine qualifications, as in a sport.

To administer a test

Of, relating to, or used in a trial.

To achieve a score or rating on tests

Attempted or advanced on a provisional or experimental basis

To exhibit a given characteristic when subjected to a test

Made or done in the course of a trial or test.

A challenge, trial.

An opportunity to test something out; a test.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.

(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

A difficult or annoying experience, such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety

A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

A tryout to pick members of a team.

A Test match.

(ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.

(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.

(UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.

(botany) Testa; seed coat.

Pertaining to a trial or test.

(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

(obsolete) A witness.

Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.

testosterone

Triple.

To challenge.

(grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people; contrast singular, dual and plural. (See Ambai language for an example.)

To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.

To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

To try out (a new player) in a sports team.

(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

The act of trying or testing in any manner.

To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.

Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.

(copulative) To be shown to be by test.

The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.

(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

The act of testing by experience; proof; test.

To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.

To make a testament, or will.

Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.

Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

(law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal;

Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

the act of testing something;

That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

(sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications;

Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

(law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law;

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

trying something to find out about it;

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.

an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event;

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.

the act of undergoing testing;

A witness.

The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

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.

To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

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.

To make a testament, or will.

any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc;

the act of testing something;

the act of undergoing testing;

trying something to find out about it;

a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge;

a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;

examine someone's knowledge of something;

show a certain characteristic when tested;

achieve a certain score or rating on a test;

determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

undergo a test;