"test drive" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: test drives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} test drive (plural test drives)
  1. A sample driving session in a motor vehicle, in order to assess its quality before purchase. Translations (trial run in a vehicle): prøvetur [common-gender] (Danish), proefrit [masculine] (Dutch), testrit [masculine] (Dutch), koeajo (Finnish), giro di prova (Italian), prøvetur [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), prøvetur [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), test drive [masculine] (Portuguese), test-drive [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-test_drive-en-noun-H2oTkKdC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 11 39 2 Disambiguation of 'trial run in a vehicle': 87 13
  2. (figuratively) Any preliminary assessment of something through use. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: test-ride
    Sense id: en-test_drive-en-noun-3S3nUO6q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 11 39 2

Verb

Forms: test drives [present, singular, third-person], test driving [participle, present], test drove [past], test driven [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|test drive<,,drove,driven>}} test drive (third-person singular simple present test drives, present participle test driving, simple past test drove, past participle test driven)
  1. (transitive) To take a motor vehicle on the road to assess its quality before purchase. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-test_drive-en-verb-qbFR~E0Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 11 39 2
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To establish a preliminary assessment of something through its use. Tags: figuratively, transitive Synonyms: test-ride
    Sense id: en-test_drive-en-verb-m3f4BSnZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: test-drive

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for test drive meaning in English (3.9kB)

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