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Definition try

Etymology 1

From Middle English trien (“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier (“to try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. Believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic ????? (tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teran? (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”).

Replaced native Middle English cunnen (“to try”) (from Old English cunnian), Middle English fandien (“to try, prove”) (from Old English fandian), and Middle English costnien (“to try, tempt, test”) (from Old English costnian).

Verb

try (third-person singular simple present tries, present participle trying, simple past and past participle tried)

1. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
2. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
   1. To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
   2. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
   3. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
   4. To extract wax from a honeycomb
3. To test, to work out.
   1. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
   2. To put to test.
   3. (specifically) To test someone's patience.
   4. To taste, sample, etc.
   5. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
   6. (law) To put on trial.
4. To experiment, to strive.
   1. To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
   2. To work on something.
   3. (obsolete) To do; to fare.
   4. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
   5. (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
5. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
6. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
7. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want

Noun

try (plural tries)

1. An attempt.
2. An act of tasting or sampling.
3. (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
4. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
5. (American football) a field goal or extra point

Etymology 2

Probably from Old French trié.

Adjective

try (comparative more try, superlative most try)

1. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

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