someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
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a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
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Tester \Tes"ter\, n. [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. t[^e]ti[`e]re a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. t[^e]te, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See {Test} a cupel, and cf. {Testi[`e]re}.] 1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.]
The shields bright, testers, and trappures. --Chaucer.
2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. --Oxf. Gross.
3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. --Walpole.
Tester \Tes"ter\, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See {Tester} a covering, and cf. {Testone}, {Testoon}.] An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to {tizzy}. Called also {teston}. --Shak.
"We smash it down with a fork and then measure how much it sprang up," says tester Marsha McNeil.
The Aegis electronic system was adequately tested before the Navy began buying the sophisticated ship defense, the Pentagon chief weapons tester told Congress on Thursday.
While in Huntington, Kikumura went to an electronics store and bought a toggle switch, circuit tester, phone jacks, phone plugs and wire.
They say that objectivity can be lost when the tester is being paid by the tested, and that supermarkets don't have the expertise to judge either the quality of tests or the results.
In each pair, one tester appeared and sounded Hispanic while the other did not.
Marlowe is the government's chief condom tester, and the explosions come from an "air burst" test he is perfecting to measure sample condoms' resistance to pressure.