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Definition of Tester
1. Noun. Someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications.
Generic synonyms: Asker, Enquirer, Inquirer, Querier, Questioner
Derivative terms: Examine, Quiz, Test
2. Noun. A flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed).
Definition of Tester
1. n. A headpiece; a helmet.
2. n. An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
Definition of Tester
1. Noun. A canopy over a bed etc. ¹
2. Noun. A person who administers a test, or a device used for testing. ¹
3. Noun. (Australia slang obsolete) 25 lashes, ie. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment. (Reference: Robert Hughes, ''The Fatal Shore'', 1987, paperback 1996 ISBN 1-86046-150-6, chapter 12.) ¹
4. Noun. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tester
1. one that tests [n -S] - See also: tests
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tester
Literary usage of Tester
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Boverton Redwood (1896)
"553 Defects in the English test of 1808, 553 Keates-s close tester, . ...
Sir Frederick Abel, 554 Abel tester — Construction and use — Effect of variation ..."
2. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Boverton Redwood (1896)
"Abel tester—Construction and use—Effect of variation in atmospheric pressure—Effect
of ... 556 Abel tester, employment in India and other countries, . ..."
3. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1908)
"In this adapter a slot is cut out of the right width and depth to receive the
tester which is just above the objective. As object it is well to employ a ..."
4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The test flame is adjusted to a 3 rnm. cross-section, and the test performed
exactly as described for the Pensky-Martens tester.1 Cleveland ..."
5. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1917)
"The sketch submitted shows an orifice tester of the type generally used in gauging
the flow of gas from the casing-head of an oil well. ..."
6. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1908)
"If a substance of greater refraction than glass is used in the tester the ...
The table given below indicates the changes when using a tester prepared by ..."
7. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"Ewing's Magnetic tester. — This is the simplest and the oldest device (Fig. ...
The Ewine hysteresis tester. magnetization. When the speed of rotation is ..."
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