释义 |
try /trī/ transitive verb (tryˈing; tried)- To attempt, endeavour (usu with to)
- To test
- To prove by testing (Shakespeare)
- To use, treat or resort to experimentally
- To put to the test
- To strain
- To annoy, irritate, afflict
- To experience, undergo (Milton)
- To examine critically
- (of a judge) to examine and decide the truth, justice, guilt or innocence
- (of a lawyer) to conduct in court (US)
- To separate out (obsolete)
- To sift (obsolete)
- To render
- To extract (obsolete)
- To refine (obsolete)
- To purify (obsolete)
intransitive verb- To make an effort
- (Spenser trie) to turn out, prove
- To lie to, keep one's head to the wind (nautical; Shakespeare)
noun- A trial
- Effort
- In rugby, the score of four points (Rugby League) or five points (Rugby Union) gained by a player who succeeds in placing the ball with his hand over the opposition's try-line
- In American football, an attempt to gain a further point or points after scoring a touchdown
adjective (Spenser trye)Choice, purified ORIGIN: OFr trier to pick out trīˈable adjective - Subject to legal trial
- That can be tried
trīˈage noun - Sorting out
- In war, etc, the selection for treatment of those casualties most likely to survive
- Allocation of resources to where they will have the most effect, rather than to where the need is most urgent or severe
- Broken coffee beans
trīˈal noun see separate entry tried /trīd/ adjective Proved good by test trīˈer noun - A person who tries in any sense
- A test
- (formerly also trīˈor) someone appointed to decide on a challenge to a juror, or a peer who is a juror in the trial of a peer
- (also tryˈer) someone who is assiduous in trying to win
tryˈing noun adjective - Making trial or proof
- Adapted to try
- Searching, severe
- Testing
- Distressing
- Causing strain
tryˈingly adverb try house noun A place in which oil is extracted from blubber, etc trying plane noun A long plane for smoothing the surface of long boards tryˈ-line noun (rugby) A line at either end of the pitch behind which a team must touch down the ball to score a try, a goal line tryˈ-on noun - An act of trying on a garment
- An attempt at imposition by audacity (slang)
tryˈ-out noun A test performance trysail /trīˈsl/ noun - A reduced sail used by small craft, instead of the mainsail, in a storm
- A small fore-and-aft sail set with a boom and gaff
try square noun A tool used in carpentry to check right angles try and (informal) Try to try back To revert, hark back try for Make an attempt to reach or gain try it on (informal) To attempt to do something risky or audacious to see how far one can go unscathed try on To put on (a garment, etc) for trial try out To test (see also try-out above) |