Testing vs Probation - What's the difference?
testing | probation |
difficult, tough
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The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
* 2011 , Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke
A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
(archaic) The act of testing; proof
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As nouns the difference between testing and probation
is that testing is the act of conducting a test; trialing, proving while probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance.As a verb testing
is .As an adjective testing
is difficult, tough.testing
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.
Anagrams
*probation
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(en noun)- You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
- He got two years probation for robbery.
- And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
- And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .
