try🔊

To attempt; to endeavor.

(obsolete) To divide; to separate.

To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.

To winnow; to sift; to pick out.

(nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil

To extract wax from a honeycomb

To test, to work out.

To make an experiment.

To put to test. +

To test someone's patience.

(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To fight or to make an attempt at an attack.

To receive an imminent attack; to take.

To taste, sample, etc.

To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

(with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).

(law trial)(law) To put on trial.

To experiment, to strive.

To have or gain knowledge of by experience.

To work on something with one's best effort and focus.

(obsolete) To do; to fare.

To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

(euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.

(nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.

To strain; to subject to excessive tests.

(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To want, to desire.

An attempt.

An act of tasting or sampling.

(rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.

(obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.

(American football) A field goal or extra point

(chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.

(programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.

(obsolete) Fine, excellent.