exam

¹

[ ig-zam ]

noun

, Informal.

1. an examination, as in school.

exam.

²

abbreviation for

1. examination.
2. examined.
3. examinee.
4. examiner.

exam

/ ɪɡˈzæm /

noun

1. See examination
   short for examination

Word History and Origins

Origin of exam¹

First recorded in 1875–80; short form

Example Sentences

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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