Acid Test

Definition: Acid Test

Acid Test

Noun

1. A rigorous or crucial appraisal.

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Mining

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Experiment

Verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration); criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test.

Crosswords: Acid Test

The Acid Test (1924)

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Books

• Acid Test (reference)

• Compensatory programming; the acid test of American education (reference)

• Freedom of expression : the acid test (reference)

• The acid test (reference)

• The Merry Pranksters: Acid Test Volume 1 (King Mob Spoken Word CDs) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the acid test for desert warfare in the maneuvers near Iron Mountains, California. Colonel R. Downing of DeKalb, Missouri, Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas, and Lieutenant M. Hutchison,.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "acid test": put to the acid test. Additional references.

Danish

paraaminobenzoesyretest (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references)

Dutch

vuurproef. (various references)

Finnish

PABA-koe (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references)

French

pierre de touche. (various references)

German

harte Prüfung, Feuerprobe (fire test, ordeal, smoke test). (various references)

Greek 

PABA-test (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test), δοκιμασία PABA (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references)

Hungarian

savpróba, döntő próba (crucial test). (various references)

Italian

PABA test (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references)

Pig Latin

aciday esttay

Portuguese

teste rigoroso. (various references)

Russian 

серьезное испытание, проба на кислую реакцию. (various references)

Spanish

prueba del ácido, prueba decisiva. (various references)

Turkish

asit testi, zorlu deneme (crucible). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dictates.

-1 letter: catties, dictate, scatted, statice.

-2 letters: attics, cadets, catted, cattie, dicast, edicts, stacte, stated, static, tasted.

-3 letters: acids, acted, adits, aides, asdic, aside, attic, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, cased, caste, cates, cedis, cesta, cesti, cited, cites, daces, dates, deist, dices, dicta, diets, ditas, dites, edict, edits, ideas, saice, sated, scatt, sited, stade, staid, state, stead, stied, taces, tacet, tacit, tacts, taste, tates, teats, tecta, testa, tides, tsade, tsadi.

-4 letters: aced, aces, acid, acts, adit, aide, aids, aits, asci, ates, cade, cadi, cads, caid, case, cast, cate, cats, cedi, cist, cite, dace, dais, date, dice, dies, diet, disc, dita, dite, dits, east, eats, edit, etas, etic, iced, ices, idea, ides, sade, sadi, said, sate, sati, scad, scat, seat, sect, seta, sett, sice, side, site, stat, stet, tace, tact, tads, tate, tats, teas, teat, teds, test, tets, tics, tide, tied, ties, tits.

-5 letters: ace, act, ads, aid, ais, ait, ate, att, cad, cat, cis, die, dis, dit, eat, eds, eta, ice, ids, its, sac, sad, sae, sat, sea, sec, sei, set, sic, sit, tad, tae, tas, tat, tea, ted, tet, tic, tie, tis, tit.

+1 letter: astricted, tetracids.

+2 letters: abstricted, anecdotist, castigated, distracted, masticated, rusticated.

+3 letters: admittances, anecdotists, colatitudes, constipated, deactivates, decapitates, detoxicants, detoxicates, detractions, distractive, domesticate, exactitudes, kickstarted, outdistance, straitlaced, wainscotted, waistcoated, wildcatters.

+4 letters: anecdotalist, anticathodes, backstitched, deactivators, decantations, decapitators, decorticates, decrepitates, delectations, directorates, disinfectant, distractable, distractedly, distractible, domesticated, domesticates, educationist, gesticulated, necessitated, octapeptides, outdistanced, outdistances, postaccident, resuscitated, scintillated, tradescantia, undistracted.

+5 letters: adventuristic, aestheticized, anecdotalists, antidesiccant, antidiabetics, antipesticide, audiocassette, clandestinity, deactivations, decapitations, decorticators, detoxications, disarticulate, disinfectants, disintoxicate, documentalist, documentarist, domesticating, domestication, educationists, fantasticated, fluidextracts, indoctrinates, inexactitudes, mastoidectomy, privatdocents, sacerdotalist, sextuplicated, sophisticated, straightlaced, straitlacedly, tradescantias, transactinide, trisoctahedra, ultradistance, videocassette.

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