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try
[ trahy ]
verb (used with object)
- to attempt to do or accomplish:
Try it before you say it's simple.
- to test the effect or result of (often followed by out ):
to try a new method; to try a recipe out.
- to endeavor to evaluate by experiment or experience:
to try a new field; to try a new book.
- to test the quality, value, fitness, accuracy, etc., of:
Will you try a spoonful of this and tell me what you think of it?
- Law. to examine and determine judicially, as a cause; determine judicially the guilt or innocence of (a person).
- to put to a severe test; subject to strain, as of endurance, patience, affliction, or trouble; tax:
to try one's patience.
- to attempt to open (a door, window, etc.) in order to find out whether it is locked:
Try all the doors before leaving.
- to melt down (fat, blubber, etc.) to obtain the oil; render (usually followed by out ).
- Archaic.
- to determine the truth or right of (a quarrel or question) by test or battle (sometimes followed by out ).
- to find to be right by test or experience.
verb (used without object)
- to make an attempt or effort; strive:
Try to complete the examination.
- Nautical. to lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
noun
- an attempt or effort:
to have a try at something.
- Rugby. a score of three points earned by advancing the ball to or beyond the opponents' goal line.
verb phrase
- to put on an article of clothing in order to judge its appearance and fit:
You can't really tell how it will look until you try it on.
- to compete for (a position, membership, etc.):
Over a hundred boys came to try out for the football team.
- to use experimentally; test:
to try out a new car.
try
/ 迟谤补瑟 /
verb
- whentr, may take an infinitive, sometimes with to replaced by and to make an effort or attempt
he tried to climb a cliff
- troften foll byout to sample, test, or give experimental use to (something) in order to determine its quality, worth, etc
try her cheese flan
- tr to put strain or stress on
he tries my patience
- tr; often passive to give pain, affliction, or vexation to: I have been sorely tried by those children
- to examine and determine the issues involved in (a cause) in a court of law
- to hear evidence in order to determine the guilt or innocence of (an accused)
- to sit as judge at the trial of (an issue or person)
- tr to melt (fat, lard, etc) in order to separate out impurities
- obsolete.trusually foll byout to extract (a material) from an ore, mixture, etc, usually by heat; refine
noun
- an experiment or trial
- an attempt or effort
- rugby the act of an attacking player touching the ball down behind the opposing team's goal line, scoring five or, in Rugby League, four points
- Also calledtry for a point American football an attempt made after a touchdown to score an extra point by kicking a goal or, for two extra points, by running the ball or completing a pass across the opponents' goal line
Usage Note
Usage
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辫谤别路迟谤测顎 verb (used with object) pretried pretrying
- 谤别路迟谤测顎 verb retried retrying
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of try1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of try1
Idioms and Phrases
- give it the old college try, Informal. to make a sincere effort:
I gave it the old college try and finally found an apartment.
- try it / that on, Chiefly British Informal.
- to put on airs:
She's been trying it on ever since the inheritance came through.
- to be forward or presumptuous, especially with a potential romantic partner:
She avoided him after he'd tried it on with her.
More idioms and phrases containing try
- old college try
- tried
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
President Xi is also trying to use this crisis as a catalyst for further change and to find more new markets for China.
"The fire brigade tried to rescue all the people but some of them unfortunately died because of suffocation," she told reporters.
The county has taken several steps to try and prevent abuse, Davenport has said, including bolstering the vetting of foster parents and probation staffers and winding down the use of group homes.
A video from Fox 11 Los Angeles showed at least one protester trying to wrench open a gate blocking a driveway.
Federal investigations were still trying to determine why authorities in Jalisco state took no action for years, despite indications that the cartel had been operating at the ranch since at least 2021.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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