Assays is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 22 anagrams from letters in assays (aasssy).
Definitions for assays
noun
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Metallurgy. determination of the amount of metal, especially gold or silver, in an ore, alloy, etc.
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a substance undergoing analysis or trial.
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a detailed report of the findings in assaying a substance.
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Archaic. examination; trial; attempt; essay.
verb (used with object)
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to examine or analyze:
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Metallurgy. to analyze (an ore, alloy, etc.) in order to determine the quantity of gold, silver, or other metal in it.
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Pharmacology. to subject (a drug) to an analysis for the determination of its potency or composition.
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to judge the quality of; assess; evaluate:
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to try or test; put to trial:
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to attempt; try; essay:
verb (used without object)
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to contain, as shown by analysis, a certain proportion of usually precious metal.
Origin of assays
1250-1300; Middle English Middle French; variant of essay
Examples for assays
assay has gone through the fragments literally piece by piece.
I understand that the assay indicates it is a valuable find.
If we liken them to gold, she has made her assay and says the gold is pure.
All the places I had to search for her were the stable and the assay office.
I've seen him like this before—the night he shot our own men in the assay office.
So one of them brought him the "specimen" and left it for assay.
That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom.
Mr. Kensington, I had this assay made for myself, and not for the public.
But the next afternoon, and perhaps the next, we would return to the same cruxes, and often assay the same options.
On keeping up the heat, the assay will resume its ordinary train.