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try English

Meaning try meaning

What does try mean?
Definitions in simple English

try Verb

— If you try to do something, you make effort to do it. As much as I tried, I couldn't understand it. I'm just trying to get things cleaned up before the kids get home. It's OK. We'll try again tomorrow. I really want to try and make a difference. — If you try something, you taste, do, or use it to see if it's good. Try using the new shoes for a week and let me know if there any problems. He's never afraid to try something new. Did you try the fish in the fridge? — If you try someone for a crime, you put them on trial. He was tried for robbery.

try Noun

— A try is when you attempt to do something. I gave juggling a try, but I just could not do it. — A try is when you taste, do, or use it to see if it's good. — A try is when you put the ball behind the other team's net in rugby.

try

— verb (= seek, attempt, essay) make an effort or attempt He tried to shake off his fears The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps The police attempted to stop the thief He sought to improve himself She always seeks to do good in the world — verb (= test) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to This approach has been tried with good results Test this recipe — noun (= effort, endeavor, endeavour) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something made an effort to cover all the reading material wished him luck in his endeavor she gave it a good try — verb (= judge) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of The football star was tried for the murder of his wife The judge tried both father and son in separate trials — verb (= sample) take a sample of Try these new crackers Sample the regional dishes — verb test the limits of You are trying my patience! — verb give pain or trouble to I've been sorely tried by these students — verb (= render) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities try the yak butter render fat in a casserole — verb (= try on) put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice Try on this sweater to see how it looks — verb (= hear) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process The jury had heard all the evidence The case will be tried in California

Synonyms try synonyms

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try English » English

attempt test endeavour taste endeavor strive experiment essay sample prove assay examine trial seek try out judge effort try on make an effort tempt make an attempt strain hear exert oneself exert put on trial measure check bid adjudicate stress rehearse intend go aspire aim struggle search savour savor rehearsal quiz put to the test prosecute practise make effort look for afflict understand tryout

Topics try topics

What do people use try to talk about?
Work and occupation Work Method

Try, attempt
Person Sense, perceive

Taste
Social behavior Law Trial

Investigate a crime
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Tense and aspect

Aspect--dynamic verbs

  • What words are used to indicate that someone is attempting to do something?
    try attempt
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Language and thought Think Learn

Study
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Cooperate with

Compete with
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Negotiate
Work and occupation Work Method Work well

Work hard
States Big Thick

Thin person
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Agent-oriented modalities

  • attempt: the agent attempts to complete the action specified by the predicate. Note: this has a sense of incompleteness, and I have seen authors call this "Incomplete" and gloss the examples with 'try'.
    try to attempt to

Conjugation try conjugation

How do you conjugate try?

try · verb

Examples try examples

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Simple sentences

Let's try something.
Even if you don't like rum, try a glass of this.
Let's try again.
Try it once again.
Will you try to play the trumpet?
We threw the ball in turn so that everyone could have a try.
Don't try to make dramatic changes to your diet all at once.
The Miller tried yet other ways to get rid of Johnny, but try as he might, Johnny couldn't be outsmarted.
Try this.
Try to control yourselves.
I thought it was worth a try.
Tell us what you want and we'll try to get it for you.
Why don't you try and get some sleep?
Tom will try.
You could at least try to be a bit more polite, even though it's not like you.
Never try to die.
It's very frustrating to try to find your glasses when you can't see anything without glasses.
I would like to try the blue striped skirt.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
You should try to form the habit of using your dictionaries.
All you have to do is try hard to master English.
Why did you try to run away?
You should try to be more polite.
Try to estimate how much you spent on books.
Before buying shoes, you should try them on.
Banks will try to lend you an umbrella on a sunny day, but they will turn their backs on a rainy day.
Try to fulfill your duty.

Movie subtitles

I have to try and achieve this on my own!
Now you try!
We'd swim naked in the sea, and then he'd try and.
Did he try to run away?
I just came to try to convince you to come back.
Try to convince me to come back, to the camp?
Y'all try taking care of yourselves, too, all right?
It's worth to try at least once.
It's the funeral of the girl you were engaged to. Why don't you try going there.
Try to recognize what taste it is.
But still, can you try for me, please?
All right, it's time to try out Our new kung fu skills.
All the good and evil deeds alike that humans draw while above ground will. never disappear throughout their lives. What you are doing now to the soil to try and make it disappear right away.
I'm going to try and tube her again at the end of this cycle.
Oort had to manage with a student of physics from Leiden, who started to try to put together a receiver.
Let's give it a try and start at the beginning.
Try turpentine.
Try her.
Want to try?
Go to him. Try to get in his good graces and keep me apprised each week.
Look! I sold some sheep and bought these for you. Try them on.
Try to get some information out of him and keep me apprized.
I'll try to go to Paris on my own.
She never will. All right, let's. we're gonna try a little role-play, okay?
But you try and skip town again, these two will die.
Maybe we try something different?
Dude, just take the compliment. Go ahead, try.
Do you think they'll try another attack?
There's no stopping that, but all we can do is try to make the fight fair.
Let me try again.
They want to try to keep the relationship going as much as they can, but they know that it's going to be tricky because Allison's situation with her family. The Argents hunt werewolves.
Let me try that again.
If we can save him, we should try.
Okay then. Anybody else want to try answering?
Does anyone want to try not being completely predictable?
Every time I try to fight back, it just gets worse.
I was just gonna try and make things better, and, like, apologize, and just wanted to let her know that I didn't, you know, I didn't want to screw anything up or make anything awkward for her.

News and current affairs

It is time for the Security Council to try to internationalize the most dangerous parts of the nuclear fuel cycle.
This leaves us trying to use patterns from past, dissimilar crises to try to infer the likely prognosis for the current crisis.
Former perpetrators often try to de-legitimize their former victims' moral superiority by claiming they were victims themselves.
The world's advice givers might try to keep this in mind when offering to help leaders of distant countries that are grappling with problems with which the adviser has little or no first-hand experience.
The best way to accentuate the region's growing anti-American sentiment is to try to close the US-Mexican border (which will be futile).
The Republican Party's real game is to try to lock that income and wealth advantage into place.
The rich will try to push such an agenda, but ultimately they will fail.
If the US gives negotiations one more serious try (a credible offer and a genuine willingness to engage), gets rebuffed, and then does nothing, it will effectively declare itself a paper tiger.
Convincing great powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals might seem as politically fanciful as pushing gun-control legislation through the US Congress, but on that issue, too, Obama has made clear that he is willing to try.
Defeat prompted Klaus and Zeman to try to and gain control over Czech TV by packing its council of overseers with their sympathizers.
But there will be no new initiatives on integration until leaders in the countries that rejected the Constitutional Treaty are ready for a new try.
SINGAPORE - The British shadow minister for Europe, Pat McFadden, recently warned members of his Labour Party that they should try to make the most of the global economy and not treat immigration like a disease.
During the Cuban missile crisis, he did not try to humiliate or win a total victory over the Soviet Union.
STANFORD - Successful political candidates try to implement the proposals on which they ran.
Should we use our growing scientific understanding of the basis of human morality to try to make people morally better?
It would be self-defeating, or worse, to try to promote morality through brutal coercion.
Unlike Hemingway's character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy.
America will soon try to appoint an Iraqi regime that will aim to cancel many of Saddam's oil contracts with France, Russia, and China, in order to make room for US and UK firms.
But try telling that to America's growing chorus of China bashers.
Last but not least, however, it is important to try to preserve dynamism in the US and European economies through productivity-enhancing measures - for example, by being vigilant about anti-trust policy, and by streamlining and simplifying tax systems.
One area of probable continuity is the Middle East, where Obama will continue to try to broker a deal between Israelis and Palestinians and press Iran not to develop nuclear weapons.
And, at a time of domestic hardship and diplomatic isolation, North Korea's leaders, their confidence boosted by their possession of nuclear weapons, might try to distract their public through audacious, and possibly destructive, acts abroad.
Nine countries already have nuclear weapons, and it would be naive to presume that others, particularly in regions of conflict, will not try to get hold of them.
Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.
Others, such as Russia and Argentina, do not literally peg to the dollar but nevertheless try to smooth movements.
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