test-drive

[ test-drahyv ]

/ ˈtɛstˌdraɪv /

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verb (used with object), test-drove, test-driv·en, test-driv·ing.

to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.

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Origin of test-drive

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby test-drive

test-bed, test blank, test card, test case, testcross, test-drive, testectomy, testee, tester, testes, test flight

How to use test-drive in a sentence

The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future|Jonah Edelman|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
You would only see it for a second, but it would drive you forward.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for test-drive

test-drive

verb -drives, -driving, -drove or -driven (tr)

to drive (a car or other motor vehicle) for a limited period in order to assess its capabilities and limitations

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