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tested
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of test
They tested the water for contaminants.
test
1. n. A challenge, trial.
2. n. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. n. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. n. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. n. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
6. n. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
7. n. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
8. v. To challenge.
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
9. v. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
10. v. 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
11. v. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
12. v. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
13. v. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
He tested positive for cancer.
14. v. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
to test a solution by litmus paper
15. n. (obsolete) A witness.
16. v. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
17. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.
18. n. (informal, slang) testosterone
purity
1. n. The state or degree of being pure.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
value
1. n. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
2. n. The degree of importance given to something.
The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
3. n. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
He does not share his parents' values.
family values
4. n. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
5. n. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
6. n. (arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
7. n. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
8. n. Precise meaning; import.
the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
9. n. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
The vein carries good values.
the values on the hanging walls
10. n. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
11. n. (obsolete) Valour; (also spelled) valew.
12. v. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
13. v. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
14. v. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
15. v. To hold dear.
I value these old photographs.

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