n.
1.(law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal
2.the act of testing something
3.(sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications
4.(law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
5.trying something to find out about it
6.an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
7.the act of undergoing testing
Idiom of the Day
lose one's marbles
to go crazy or act irrationally
The man seems to have lost his marbles and does not make any sense at all.