Assert and Test

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• Trying something to find out about it.
  • usage: "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
  • synonyms: trial, trial run, tryout
• Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc.
  • usage: "the test was standardized on a large sample of students"
  • synonyms: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test
• A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
  • usage: "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"
  • synonyms: examination, exam
• The act of undergoing testing.
  • usage: "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
  • synonyms: trial
• The act of testing something.
  • usage: "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"
  • synonyms: trial, run
• A hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins.

verb

• Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.
  • usage: "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
  • synonyms: prove, try, try out, examine, essay
• Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection.
  • usage: "screen the blood for the HIV virus"
  • synonyms: screen
• Examine someone's knowledge of something.
  • usage: "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"
  • synonyms: quiz
• Show a certain characteristic when tested.
  • usage: "He tested positive for HIV"
• Achieve a certain score or rating on a test.
  • usage: "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"
• Determine the presence or properties of (a substance. )
• Undergo a test.
  • usage: "She doesn't test well"

• (v.t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
• (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
• (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
• (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
• (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
• (v.t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness or quality of by experiment or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
• (n.) A witness.
• (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
• (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
• (v.t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
• (v.i.) To make a testament or will.
• (n.) Alternative of Testa.
• (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

Test is the event of a price movement that approaches a support level or a resistance level established earlier by the market. A test is passed if prices do not go below the support or resistance level, and the test is failed if prices go on to new lows or highs.