tester

¹ American  

[tes-ter] / ˈtɛs tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that tests.

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tester ² American  

[tes-ter, tees-] / ˈtɛs tər, ˈtis- /

noun

1. a canopy, as over a bed or altar.

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tester ³ American  

[tes-ter] / ˈtɛs tər /

noun

1. the teston of Henry VIII.

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tester ¹ British  

/ ˈtɛstə /

noun

1. a person or thing that tests or is used for testing

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tester ² British  

/ ˈtɛstə /

noun

1. (in furniture) a canopy, esp the canopy over a four-poster bed

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tester ³ British  

/ ˈtɛstə /

noun

1. another name for teston

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Etymology

Origin of tester¹

First recorded in 1655–65; test ¹ + -er ¹

Origin of tester²

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English tester, testo(u)r, testir, teester “headpiece,” from Old French testiere “headpiece, head covering,” from Medieval Latin testerium, testrum, testura “canopy of a bed”; derivative of Vulgar Latin testa “head,” from Latin testa “earthenware jar; brick; tile”; test ²

Origin of tester³

First recorded in 1560–70; earlier testorn, variant of teston, with -r- from Middle French testart “teston”

Example Sentences

Mr. Amodei writes that Anthropic’s testers have found “a lot of very weird and unpredictable things can go wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Take, for example, our tester’s heated/ventilated and full-back massaging front seats.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once a player is in the pool, they must let testers know where they will be for one hour of every day.

From BBC

For now, Google is restricting AI Inbox to “trusted testers” before making it more broadly available in coming months.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We referred to him as our taste tester. He was always, ‘Hey, I need to taste that brisket, or I need to taste the chicken and make sure that it’s good,’” Franco said.

From Los Angeles Times

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