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Trial Run

Definition: Trial Run

Trial Run

Noun

1. Trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain".

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


Synonyms: Trial Run

Synonyms: test (n), trial (n), tryout (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Trial Run

Specialty definitions using "trial run": ASSEMBLY-MACHINE-SET-UP MECHANIC, AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT ENGINEER-TECHNICIAN, AUTOMATIC CASTING-FORGING MACHINE OPERATORDEBURRER, STRIP, DRILL-PRESS OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROLengineer, automated equipment, ENVELOPE-FOLDING-MACHINE ADJUSTERfield engineer, field servicer, finishing machine operator, FIRESETTERJACQUARD-PLATE MAKER, JOB SETTER, SPLINE-ROLLING MACHINEKNITTER MECHANICLITHOGRAPH-PRESS OPERATOR, TINWAREmachine operator, MANUFACTURER'S SERVICE REPRESENTATIVEPANEL-MACHINE SETTER, pattern-and-chain maker, PROBE TEST EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN, SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS, programmer operator, numerical controlQUILTING-MACHINE OPERATORservice engineer, service representative, SETTER, AUTOMATIC-SPINNING LATHE, SETTER, COLD-ROLLING MACHINE, soft tooling technician, SPRING COILING MACHINE SETTER, stitcher operator, STITCHING-MACHINE OPERATORtechnician, automated equipment, TOOL PROGRAMMER, NUMERICAL CONTROL, TORSION SPRING COILING MACHINE SETTERWELDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, FRICTION. (references)

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Modern Usage: Trial Run

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Movie/TV Titles

Trial Run (1969)

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

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Commercial Usage: Trial Run

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Books

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

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Photo Album: Trial Run

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Pictured here is a trial run of a patient taken from CDC to a nearby medical center. A doctor is administering care to the patient with supportive help from the Isolation Unit medical staff. Credit: CDC.

Photographed on 17 January 1943 at Houghton, Washington, on a trial run shortly before commissioning. She has been specially fitted with twin cranes and a catapult to serve as a training ship for battleship and cruiser aircraft crews. The aircraft on the catapult is a Curtiss SO3C Seamew. Credit: NAVY.

Construction of a railroad engine. Steamed up, ready for trial run. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Modern Translation: Trial Run

Language Translations for "trial run"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

proevekoersel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

proefrit (demonstration, operational demonstration). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kokeilla autoa (give the car a trial run). (various references)

   

French

  

parcours d'essai, marche d'essai, essai en ligne, course d'essai. (various references)

   

German

  

Probelauf (dry run, practice run, test run). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δοκιμή "επί γραμμής", δοκιμαστική πορεία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

prova in linea, percorso di prova (experimental line, line used for experiments), corsa di prova. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

試運転 (test run). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しう"て" (test run). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ialtray unray

   

Russian 

  

пробный пробег. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recorrido de prueba, ensayo en línea. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

provtur (shakedown cruise), provkörning (dummy run). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Trial Run

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-r-r-t-u"

-2 letters: nutria, ratlin, ritual, trinal, urinal.

-3 letters: lunar, riant, rural, rutin, trail, train, trial, ulnar, ultra, unlit, until, urari, urial.

-4 letters: airn, airt, alit, anil, anti, aril, aunt, lain, lair, lari, lati, liar, lint, lira, litu, luna, lunt, nail, nurl, rail, rain, rani, rant, rial, ruin, runt, tail, tain, tali, tarn, tirl, tuna, turn.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-r-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: retinular.

 

+2 letters: interlunar, intermural, intramural, tranquiler, triangular, trinocular, unliterary.

 

+3 letters: antiburglar, granularity, interlunary, intraocular, neutralizer, tranquiller, trifluralin, ultramarine, ventricular.

 

+4 letters: antiburglary, interlobular, internuclear, intramurally, neutralizers, quarterfinal, reregulating, reregulation, tranquilizer, triangularly, trifluralins, turbellarian, ultramarines, ultrarefined, unrhetorical, unscriptural.

 

+5 letters: antiguerrilla, frustratingly, granularities, gubernatorial, intercellular, intercultural, intergranular, interneuronal, intracellular, intramuscular, intraocularly, intravascular, preindustrial, quarterfinals, recirculating, recirculation, reformulating, reformulation, relubricating, relubrication, reregulations, revolutionary, rudimentarily, suprarational, tranquilizers, tranquillizer, triangularity, turbellarians, ultrarational, ultraromantic.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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