exam

[ ig-zam ]

/ ɪgˈzæm /

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noun Informal.

an examination, as in school.

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Origin of exam

First recorded in 1875–80; short form

Other definitions for exam (2 of 2)

exam.

abbreviation

examination.

examined.

examinee.

examiner.

How to use exam in a sentence

He was the first person in the country without a vision disability to pass the bar exam orally.
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Police violently grabbed him and now Monakhov is facing a psychiatric exam.
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An earache in a child with a perfectly normal exam is more difficult to figure out than one with a bulging and inflamed eardrum.
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“We hope that the release of this exam will address the principled confusion that the new framework produced,” Coleman wrote.
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You never know more than the day you go in and take that bar exam.
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But I did not get on at all with mathematics, and in the end of term exam.
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Studying for an exam, the year before, he had explained the difference between the two red stars in almost the same words.
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This saved the situation, for if the old man had lost his temper, it would have been all up with Dirrik's exam.
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Dirrik had never got beyond the rank of "first-hand" on board; it was always this miserable exam that stood in his way.
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I thought I was going to have brain fever, or something, and you know what a lot depends on this exam.
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British Dictionary definitions for exam

exam

/ (ɪɡˈzæm) /

noun

short for examination

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exam

Origin of exam

Other definitions for exam (2 of 2)

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How to use exam in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for exam