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Definition of Testing ground
1. Noun. A region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation. "Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Testing Ground
Literary usage of Testing ground
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1852)
"At the testing-ground in the Dockyard. A fourfold purchase to be attached ...
The testing-ground to be marked for the anchors, and their turn for trial to ..."
2. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1852)
"At the testing-ground in the Dockyard. A fourfold purchase to be attached ...
The testing-ground to be marked for the anchors, and their turn for trial to ..."
3. Tests of a Jacobs-Shupert Boiler in Comparison with a Radial-stay Boiler: A by William Freeman Myrick Goss (1912)
"Provisions were made for effectively policing the limits of the testing-ground
as thus defined. 84. Thursday, the 20th of June, the day set for the tests, ..."
4. "Dear Folks at Home -- -- -- .": The Glorious Story of the United States by Kemper Frey Cowing, Courtney Ryley Cooper (1919)
"Belleau Wood had been a testing-ground for Hiller — the testing- ground that had
shown him what the traditions of the Marine Corps meant and all they stood ..."
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