Associations to the word «Testing»

Wiktionary

TESTING, verb. Present participle of test
TESTING, adjective. Difficult, tough.
TESTING, noun. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.

Dictionary definition

TESTING, noun. The act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons".
TESTING, noun. An examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox".
TESTING, noun. The act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats