assay

assay

assay (third-person singular simple present assays, present participle assaying, simple past and past participle assayed)

1. (transitive) To attempt (something). [from 14th c.]
   • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, IV , The Sage to the Young Man, lines 5-8:

     Who seest the stark array

     And hast not stayed to count

     But singly wilt assay

     The many-cannoned mount [...].

   • 2011, ‘All-pro, anti-American’, The Economist, 28 May 2011:

     Speaking before a small crowd beneath antique airplanes suspended in the atrium of the State of Iowa Historical Museum, an effortfully cheerful Mr Romney assayed an early version of a stump speech I imagine will become a staple of his campaign for the Republican nomination, once it ""officially"" begins some time next week in New Hampshire.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something). [14th-19th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts IX:

     When Saul cam to Jerusalem he assayde to cople hymsilfe with the apostles, and they wer all afrayde of hym and beleved not that he was a disciple.

3. (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.). [from 15th c.]
4. (obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight. [15th-17th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     Nay said sir Gawayne not so, it were shame to vs were he not assayed were he neuer soo good a knyghte [...].

   • 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 351:

     The marquis, in obsession for his wife, / Longed to expose her constancy to test. / He could not throw the thought away or rest, / Having a marvellous passion to assay her; / Needless, God knows, to frighten and dismay her, / He had assayed her faith enough before / And ever found her good; what was the need / Of heaping trial on her, more and more?

Wikipedia assay (plural assays)

1. trial, attempt, essay.
2. the qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something

	analisi
	the qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something
	Esame, analisi delle qualità e delle diverse risoluzioni di un componente in un materiale, come nell'oro o nella droga.
	Qualitative or quantitative determination of the components of a material, such as an ore or a drug. (Source: MGH)

	saggio
	the qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something
	Esame, analisi delle qualità e delle diverse risoluzioni di un componente in un materiale, come nell'oro o nella droga.
	Qualitative or quantitative determination of the components of a material, such as an ore or a drug. (Source: MGH)

apprezzare

stimare

valutare

	prova
	trial, attempt, essay

	saggiatura
	the qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something

	tentativo
	trial, attempt, essay

analizzare

assaggiare

assaggio

mettere alla prova

misura

prova dura

provare

rispettare

saggiare

test

valutazione

Altri significati:

(transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).

(transitive) To attempt, to try.

(obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.

trial, attempt, essay.

to analyze, estimate

Traduzione 'veloce'

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