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Testing

//ˈtɛs.tɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Difficult; tough.

    "England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September."

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving. countable, uncountable

    "The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur."

  2. 2
    the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works wordnet
  4. 4
    an examination of the characteristics of something wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of test form-of, gerund, participle, present

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