"testing" meaning in English

See testing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/ Audio: En-uk-testing.oga [UK] Forms: more testing [comparative], most testing [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ Head templates: {{en-adj}} testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)
  1. Difficult; tough.
    Sense id: en-testing-en-adj-mlhueOvQ

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/ Audio: En-uk-testing.oga [UK] Forms: testings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)
  1. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of conducting a test): тэсці́раванне (tescíravannje) [neuter] (Belarusian), testování [neuter] (Czech), testaus (Finnish), koestus (Finnish), test [masculine] (French), prova [feminine] (Italian), testowanie [neuter] (Polish), teste (Portuguese), тести́рование (testírovanije) [neuter] (Russian), prueba [feminine] (Spanish), test etme (Turkish), тестува́ння (testuvánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-testing-en-noun-T~lycPvO Hyponyms: A/B testing, alpha testing, animal testing, beta testing, big bang testing, black-box testing, continuous testing, DNA testing, fuzz testing, genetic testing, gray-box testing, grey-box testing, hypothesis testing, integration testing, keyword-driven testing, Kleenex testing, model-based testing, model-driven testing, nuclear testing, PAT testing, portable appliance testing, psychological testing, reality testing, regression testing, risk-based testing, sandwich testing, sanity testing, spark testing, statistical hypothesis testing, surge testing, testing clause, testing ground, toxicology testing, unit testing, white-box testing, wind tunnel testing

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/ Audio: En-uk-testing.oga [UK]
Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} testing
  1. present participle and gerund of test Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: test Derived forms: testing, testing, testing testing
    Sense id: en-testing-en-verb-Kmxp2G-7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 23 71 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 8 23 69

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.