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Give It A Try

Definition: Give It A Try

Give It A Try

Verb

1. Try (informal); "let's give it a whirl!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Give It A Try

Synonym: give it a whirl (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Give It A Try

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Experiment

Phrase: check it out, give it a try, see how it goes; "Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes."

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Give It A Try

English words defined with "give it a try": give it a whirl. (references)
Specialty definitions using "give it a try": HIBERNATEMemory Management UnitReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Give It A Try

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All right, I'll give it a try. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

This is true, but if you lay down in the street I'll give it a try. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Lyrics

But I know I've got to give it a try. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply)

Too much of nothing so why don't we give it a try (Too Much; performing artist: Spice Girls)

Movie/TV Titles

Give It a Try (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Give It A Try

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Yemen

Chewing qat is not obligatory but your host will be gratified if you give it a try. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Give It A Try

Language Translations for "give it a try"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حاول (aim, attempt, endeavor, endeavour, essay, have a try, make a bid, make up, seek, study, try), ‏جرب (experience, experiment, give it a whirl, have a go, pilot, proof, scab, tempt, test, try, try out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

опитвам се (essay, offer, seek, try), пробвам (attempt, essay, experiment, sample, try, try on). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pokusit se (attempt, try). (various references)

   

French

  

essayer qch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δίνω μιά προσπάθεια. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

próbáljuk meg, megpróbál (attempt, essay, have a fling at sg, to attempt, to essay, to offer, to take a fling at sg, to try, try, try on). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"たり'付ける (to give it a try). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あたり'つける (to give it a try). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivegay itay aay ytray

   

Russian 

  

попытаться (have a go at, make an effort), испытывать (assay, be effected by, essay, experience, have, try, try out, try over, undergo). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pokušati (assay, attempt, essay, have a go, tempt, try). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

probar (assay, attempt, chance, establish, evidence, experiment, have a bash at, like, make good, prove, sample, sip, taste, tease, tempt, test, touch, try, try on, try out, vet), intentar (assay, attempt, bring, bring for, bring to, bring up, give it a whirl, have a bash at, have a go, intent, test, try, try on). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

denemek (assay, attempt, chance, condition, essay, experience, experiment, give it a shot, have a go, have a go at, have a shy at, have a stab at, have a try, prove, put, put to the touch, sample, take a chance, take a whack at, test, try, try on, try out). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Give It A Try

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-r-t-t-v-y"

-3 letters: gravity, variety, virgate, vitiate.

-4 letters: aigret, attire, gaiety, gaiter, garvey, gritty, grivet, gyrate, ratite, rivage, target, treaty, triage, trivet, trivia, verity, vittae, yatter, yttria.

-5 letters: aiver, avert, gayer, giver, grate, grave, gravy, great, irate, ratty, retag, retia, rivet, targe, tarty, tater, teary, terai, terga, tetra, tiger, titer, titre, tragi, trait, trave, treat, trite.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-r-t-t-v-y"
 

+3 letters: investigatory.

 

+4 letters: seronegativity.

 

+5 letters: interrogatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Give It A Try


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 69 76 65      49 74      41      54 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01001001 01110100 00100000 01000001 00100000 01010100 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#73 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#84 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0069 0076 0065      0049 0074      0041      0054 0072 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41758871243862352548491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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