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# untested

«untested» in Mova's school dictionary: **not yet tried, checked or proved to work** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (untested)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Untested means not yet tried, checked or proved to work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#m1)

2) An untested person has not yet shown what they can do in a hard situation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: an untested idea is only a hypothesis until an experiment tests it. In safety and medicine: untested medicines or products can be dangerous. In computing: untested code may have bugs. In sport and stories: an untested player or hero.

### examples

- The new medicine is still untested. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#x1)
- An untested idea is only a guess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#x2)
- Don't use untested climbing equipment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#x3)
- The young goalkeeper was untested in big matches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#x4)
- Our robot's code was untested, so it crashed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#x5)
- The bridge design was untested in strong winds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/#x6)

### note

Opposite: «tested». In science, an idea becomes evidence only after it is tested fairly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «untested» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untested/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.