tester

See also: Tester

English

A tester (canopy) above a pulpit

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛstə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛstəɹ/

• Audio (Australia):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tester, from Old French testre, from Latin testura.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A canopy over a bed.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, volume III, page 13:

     And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]   The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

2. Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or sounding board over a pulpit.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Moby Dick:

     With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

Derived terms

• testered

Translations

canopy — see canopy

Etymology 2

A vacuum tube tester

From Middle English tester, equivalent to test +‎ -er.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A person who administers a test.

   Hyponym: taster

2. A device used for testing.
3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.

   Synonym: Botany Bay dozen

4. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
5. A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
6. (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.

Derived terms

• animal tester
• beta tester
• hipot tester
• intertester
• intratester
• linen tester
• multitester
• phase tester
• playtester
• pretester
• retester
• shit tester
• skill tester
• strength tester

Translations

a person administering a test

• Bulgarian: изпитател (bg) m (izpitatel)
• Finnish: testaaja (fi)
• German: Tester (de) m
• Polish: tester (pl) m, testerka (pl) f
• Russian: тестиро́вщик (ru) m (tɛstiróvščik), испыта́тель (ru) m (ispytátelʹ), те́стер (ru) m (tɛ́stɛr)
• Spanish: téster m or f, tester m or f, probador (es) m

a device used for testing

• Spanish: téster m, tester m

Etymology 3

For testern, teston, from French teston. See tester (“a covering”), and compare testone, testoon.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. An old French silver coin.
2. (UK, slang, dated) A sixpence.

   Synonyms: teston, tizzy

   • 1602, S[amuel] R[owlands], “How a Citizen was Serued by a Curtizan”, in Greenes Ghost Havnting Conie-catchers. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short?] for R[oger] Iackson, and I. North, […], →OCLC; republished in The Complete Works of Samuel Rowlands: 1598–1628: Now First Collected, volume I, [Glasgow]: Printed [by R. Anderson] for the Hunterian Club, 1880, →OCLC, page 42:

     When after their beaſtly ſport and pleaſure Mounſieur Libid[inoſo] heat of luſt was ſomewhat aſſwaged, and ready to goe, féeling his pocket for a venereall remuneration [i.e., a copper coin] finds nothing but a Teſter, or at leaſt ſo little, that it was not ſufficient to pleaſe dame Pleaſure for her hire. [...] My Ladie would not beléeue Monſ. Libid. a great while, but ſearched and féeled for more coine, [...]

Etymology 4

Inherited from Middle English tester; see testiere.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. Alternative form of testiere (“armor for a horse's head”).
   • 2009 January 1, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 275:

     A horse-head tester had cutouts for the animal's eyes and ears. A peytral protected the horse's breast, while the crinet, made of overlapping steel plates joined by leather straps or rivets, protected its neck.

   • 2003, Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament in England, 1100-1400, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 175:

     The tester and crupper, together with the piser, which probably protected the chest, formed the basis of most horse armour […]

Anagrams

• Setter, Street, Teters, retest, setter, street

Danish

Verb

tester

1. present of teste

Noun

tester

1. a tester; someone who tests
2. an instrument used for testing
3. a product sample

Declension

Declension of tester

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tester	testeren	testere	testerene
genitive	testers	testerens	testeres	testerenes

References

• “tester” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tester” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛs.te/

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Etymology 1

From test +‎ -er.

Verb

tester

1. to test

Conjugation

Conjugation of tester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	testant /tɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		testé /tɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	teste /tɛst/	testes /tɛst/	teste /tɛst/	testons /tɛs.tɔ̃/	testez /tɛs.te/	testent /tɛst/
	imperfect	testais /tɛs.tɛ/	testais /tɛs.tɛ/	testait /tɛs.tɛ/	testions /tɛs.tjɔ̃/	testiez /tɛs.tje/	testaient /tɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	testai /tɛs.te/	testas /tɛs.ta/	testa /tɛs.ta/	testâmes /tɛs.tam/	testâtes /tɛs.tat/	testèrent /tɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	testerai /tɛs.tə.ʁe/	testeras /tɛs.tə.ʁa/	testera /tɛs.tə.ʁa/	testerons /tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	testerez /tɛs.tə.ʁe/	testeront /tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	testerais /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	testerais /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	testerait /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	testerions /tɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	testeriez /tɛs.tə.ʁje/	testeraient /tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	teste /tɛst/	testes /tɛst/	teste /tɛst/	testions /tɛs.tjɔ̃/	testiez /tɛs.tje/	testent /tɛst/
	imperfect2	testasse /tɛs.tas/	testasses /tɛs.tas/	testât /tɛs.ta/	testassions /tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	testassiez /tɛs.ta.sje/	testassent /tɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	teste /tɛst/	—	testons /tɛs.tɔ̃/	testez /tɛs.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

From Latin testārī.

Verb

tester

1. (law) to write one's will

Further reading

• “tester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tester.

Noun

tester m (invariable)

1. multimeter

   Synonyms: multimetro, voltamperometro

Latin

Verb

tester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of testor

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tester m

1. indefinite plural of test

Verb

tester

1. present of teste

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.tɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɛr
• Syllabification: tes‧ter

Noun

tester m inan (related adjective testerski)

1. tester (device that tests something)
2. (cosmetics) tester (free sample bottle of perfume or cosmetic available in a shop for customers to try)
3. (cosmetics) tester (small phial of perfume or cosmetic bought to try a fragrance without the commitment of a full-size bottle)

   Synonym: sampler

Declension

Declension of tester

	singular	plural
nominative	tester	testery
genitive	testera	testerów
dative	testerowi	testerom
accusative	tester	testery
instrumental	testerem	testerami
locative	testerze	testerach
vocative	testerze	testery

Noun

tester m pers (female equivalent testerka)

1. tester (person on whom drugs or cosmetics are tested)

Declension

Declension of tester

	singular	plural
nominative	tester	testerzy, testery1
genitive	testera	testerów
dative	testerowi	testerom
accusative	testera	testerów
instrumental	testerem	testerami
locative	testerze	testerach
vocative	testerze	testerzy

¹Deprecative.

Further reading

• “tester”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “tester”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• tester in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tester.

Noun

tester n (plural testere)

1. tester

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tester	testerul	testere	testerele
genitive-dative	tester	testerului	testere	testerelor
vocative	testerule		testerelor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tester.

Noun

tester m or f by sense (plural testers)

1. alternative form of téster

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “tester”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Swedish

Noun

tester

1. indefinite plural of test