| 词汇 | untested |
| 释义 | untested adjective uk /ʌnˈtest.ɪd/ us /ʌnˈtest.ɪd/ An untested idea or policy has not yet been used and so there is no proof that it is true or effective: Initially, they were dismissed as being dreamers with lots of trendy, untested ideas. Some laws are out of date; others are new and untested. An untested new product or medicine has not been tested to find out if it is safe or effective: Demonstrators argue that biotech food is untested and unsafe to eat. The war veterans claim they were used as guinea pigs to try out untested medications. untried and untestedThey advise against investing in untried and untested technology. An untested person or organization has not yet been forced to, or had the opportunity to, show if they are good at something: As a candidate, he is untested in national campaigns. Her opponents like to portray her as an inexperienced and untested leader. New, untested companies with no forecast of profits for years to come raised billions of pounds selling stock to the public. The untested theory recommends restoring wetlands as a way of filtering harmful nitrogen. When DNA was first used to identify suspects, it was largely untested in the courtroom. She criticized the useless, untested and unproven "treatments" offered to desperate people. Testing, checking and experimenting artefact as an experiment assay background check blood draw experiment station experimental experimentally experimentation experimenter inoculate put out feelersidiom put someone/something through their/its pacesidiom put something to the testidiom recheck reinspect try something out uncheckable untestable welfare check You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Inexperienced (of people) Examples of untesteduntested Several, as yet untested, predictions may be made, however. Although researchers have demonstrated infants' sensitivity to a number of these cues, their effects on early sentence comprehension have been largely untested. The assumption which remains untested in the present study is that most of the private speech used by the preschoolers was self-regulatory in nature. However, the influence of these variables on diameter growth rates remains untested. Many assumptions - about the volunteers' youth, gender, class, religion, ethnicity, politics, and motives, and how these may have changed over time - therefore remain untested. Without such tests, descriptions of learning could be considered pseudo-scientific, ad hoc auxiliary assumptions of an untested theory. Formal strategies to promote interdisciplinary working are largely untested but include collaborative clinical records, shared goal-setting and closer working practices. Of course, whether the extent of mean reversion present justifies current practices is untested. This second assumption is a reasonable, adaptationist heuristic that goes largely untested. With respect to parrots and corvids, for example, such claims about social stability are false or unknown and about cognitive ability, false or untested. We will attempt to make a rough presentation of an idea for a so far untested strategy for a defined township. The more untested assumptions, the more likely one of them is wrong. In that respect, their real effect stands untested. Unfortunately, in many situations, the untested beliefs of either doctors or the public may make it difficult or even impossible to carry out a trial. Both are conceivable, although as yet untested empirically in the area of foreign aid. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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