try🔊

To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

(obsolete) To divide; to separate.

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

(one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by ''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. Usually followed by a present participle.

To put to test.

(specifically) To test someone's patience.

(used in the imperative) 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.

(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.

(used with another verb) 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.