field-test
verb (used with object)
to test (a device or product) under various conditions of actual use.
field-tested
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past participleof field-test.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof field-test.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
field-testverb (used with object)to test (a device or product) under various conditions of actual use.
Example Sentences
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All need to be not only generated, but also field-tested.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
A promising new form of ammonium phosphate fertilizer has been field-tested by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
That movie stars Dwayne Johnson as an effervescent Amazon riverboat skipper named Frank, who utters some version of that same, field-tested orange-juice bit during the film’s early moments.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
This hypothesis, developed by Sheila K. Johnson, has now been modestly field-tested by her and published in Trans-action.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 6, 2021
Defarge, knotting my fate inexorably into the stitches of this nobly field-tested woolen garment.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
