test drive
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2.7
- noun
- /tɛst draɪv/
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prueba de conducción
- He was excited to take the convertible for a test drive at the dealership.
- take a test drive
- car for a test drive
- arrange a test drive
Let's take her out-of-the-box, give it a test drive.
- Let's take her out-of-the-box, give it a test drive.
- And it was hard, you know, hard to get people to do a test drive first.
- But so it's literally just set up for a test drive.
- I'm going to open this up so I can take you guys outside and for a test drive of it.
- I remember taking a very nice conservative family of six on a test drive in AI, forgot, I think it was the Windstar, Ford Windstar family van.
- And I think that this was just a test drive for them.
Examples
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There is a limit of one test drive per household.
Blog text (1) -
Go for a test drive.
Blog text (22) -
And it was hard, you know, hard to get people to do a test drive first.
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I think I need a test drive.
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You go with them on the test drive.
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Take this for a test drive.
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Do you mind if I take her for a test drive?
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You need a test drive.
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"My students and I took it for a test drive," he says.
Academic text (2007) -
Take it for a test drive and see what you think.
Blog text (1)
Synonyms
13
3.2
A short test to see if something works well before real use
3
2.8
A drive when someone checks if a car is safe to use on the road
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core sense (to drive something as a test) is directly compositional from 'test' + 'drive' and a B1 learner would likely infer the meaning when applied to cars. However, its extended, metaphorical use meaning 'try out' for non-driving products or services is a semantic generalization that is not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Test drive (noun) comes from taking a car out on the road to drive it as a test to see how it feels and works, so a test drive is a short trial run of a vehicle.