TESTER (tester)

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Irregular inflected form: tester   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tester mean? 

• TESTER (noun)
  The noun TESTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

2. a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)

  Familiarity information: TESTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

examiner; quizzer; tester

Hypernyms ("tester" is a kind of...):

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner (someone who asks a question)

Derivation:

test (examine someone's knowledge of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tester" is a kind of...):

canopy (a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather)

 Context examples 

The resulting pool will be enriched for those cDNA species unique to the tester cells.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

A difference cloning method and a technique for comparison of two closely related cell types, e.g. a differentiated or transformed cell (tester) and the undifferentiated or normal cell (driver).

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

The resulting cDNA library will be enriched for sequences expressed only in the tester cells. cDNA subtraction can also be done by PCR.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

Driver RNA is converted to double-strand cDNA, usually with the incorporation of a tagged nucleotide, while the tester RNA is converted to first-strand cDNA (with no tag).

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)