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Definition: Trial |
TrialAdjective1. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment; "an experimental drug"; "a pilot project"; "a test run"; "a trial separation". Noun1. (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial". 2. The act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial". 3. (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday". 4. (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty". 5. Trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain". 6. An annoying or frustrating event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague". 7. The act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Trial \Tri"al\, noun. [From Try.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Statistics | In probability theory a'trial'is a deliberate attempt to generate an event which is supposed to be happening under a probabilistic scheme; e. g. the tossing of a coin is a'trial', the outcome being one of two possible events, a head or a tail. More generally, a'trial'is any controlled experiment with an outcome of an uncertain kind. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In law, a trial is the presentation of information in a formal setting, usually a court, with the object of determining whether or not a person (or entity, such as a corporation) has broken a law. See, e.g., jury trial
In science, a trial is the result of a given run of a given experiment, with the usual object of testing a scientific hypothesis. Multiple trials are usually run, when possible, for an experiment, in order to offset the effects of random error.
In probability, a trial is an action that results in one of a number of outcomes or elementary events.
In Motorcycle racing, trail is a kind of competition.
See also: trial and error
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trial."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TRIAL | English | Technique for Retrieving Information from Abstracts of Literature | Language, Engineering & Technology |
| TRINIDAD | English | TRial Infrastructure for Information and Dependable Applications Deployment | Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TrialSynonyms: experimental (adj), model(a) (adj), pilot(a) (adj), test(a) (adj), trial(a) (adj), run (n), test (n), trial run (n), tribulation (n), tryout (n), visitation (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: experimented (food & agriculture). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction; (painfulness); bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune. |
Difficulty | Nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble. |
Essay | Noun: essay, trial, endeavor, attempt; aim, struggle, venture, adventure, speculation, coup d'essai, debut; probation; (experiment). |
Experiment | Noun: experiment; essay; (attempt); analysis; (investigation); screen; trial, tentative method, t_tonnement. |
Inquiry | Scire facias, ad referendum; trial. |
Lawsuit | Hearing, trial; verdict; (judgment); appeal, appeal motion; writ of error; certiorari. |
Pain | Noun: painfulness; Adjective: trouble, care; (pain); trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness. |
Care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load. | |
Punishment | Discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital; (reward); penology; retributive justice. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trial |
| English words defined with "trial": Scopes trial, show trial, State trial ♦ To stand trial, Trial at bar, Trial by certificate, Trial by duel, Trial by inspection, Trial by record, trial judge, trial run. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trial": acceptance trial ♦ bench trial ♦ non-interventional trial, nonrandomized clinical trial ♦ phase I/II trial, phase II/III trial, phase IV trial ♦ trial brief. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trial": Diseasefulness ♦ Justiceable ♦ Pirameter ♦ Tyrociny. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Trial" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (trial). |
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Screenplays | No marriage counselling, no trial separation, divorced. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Maybe we could hold the trial there. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) That should be enough to cover the experiment, the arrest, and most of your trial. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Uh, your Honor, can I call for one of those bad trial thingys? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Now, the first week'll be on a trial basis. (Maude; writing credit: Colette Deréal) | |
Lyrics | Now you're the jury at my trial (Just One More Chance; performing artist: Bing Crosby) God's flying in for your trial (You Get What You Give; performing artist: New Radicals) | |
Clever | A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trial by Jury (1974) The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) Trial by Jury (1972) | |
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 | A variety of photos of pills; bottles of pills; woman with water and pills; hand with pills; cup and pills; boxes of pills. The pills are of the drugs tamoxifen and rolaxifene that are being used in a breast cancer prevention trial (STAR). Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | 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. |
 | Dirtbike trial and competition on Haystack Mountain, in Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Happel. |  | Lenses placed in a trial frame help determine an eyeglass prescription. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |
 | Running her standardization trial off Rockland, Maine, 19 December 1907. Note that her 12-inch gun turrets have not yet been installed. Photographed by N.L. Stebbins. Credit: NAVY. |  | Makes its first trial flight, at Cardington, England, 23 June 1921. Note that the airship already wears U.S. markings. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Democracy against the unnatural union. Trial Octr. 14th 1817. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | On trial -- ancient embezzling case. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Trial in Czechoslovakia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for the murder of P. Barton Key, Esq., at Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
F. R. Havergal | So your fiery trial is still unextinguished. But what if it be but His beacon light on your upward path? |
John Peter Altgeld | Those fellows did not have a fair trial and I did what I thought was right. |
Lew Wallace | One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. |
Sophocles | Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is fanciful, save by trial. |
Thomas Fuller | A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Powers will address a request to the Government of the Netherlands for the surrender to them of the ex-Emperor in order that he may be put on trial. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | This would be a trial. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Here it was woefully visible, in this intense seclusion of the forest, which of itself would have been a heavy trial to the spirits. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | After a great crisis, a great trial. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He may turn pale when the trial comes. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A current trial with interferon beta 1a is underway. (references) | |
Not everyone is eligible to participate in a clinical trial. (references) | ||
This type of trial often involves many centers and many subjects. (references) | ||
Business | All the trial projects were reported successful. (references) | |
Pastor Xu Yongze's family received no notification of his mid-1997 trial. (references) | ||
Vendors have sought control of ICP arrangements during the first-phase trial period. (references) | ||
Children | Chile | Of the cases, 70 percent came to trial, of which 80 percent resulted in convictions. (references) |
Lebanon | Juvenile delinquency is rising; many juveniles wait in ordinary prisons for trial and remain there after sentencing. (references) | |
Cameroon | The law specifies that children should not be detained without trial beyond 3 months after an investigation, but the Government detained children for longer periods of time. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Sri Lanka | The case has not come to trial. (references) |
Turkey | His trial continued at year's end. (references) | |
Malaysia | Noor's trial was ongoing at year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Dominican Rep | He is currently awaiting trial. (references) |
Mexico | Trial is by judge, not jury, in most criminal cases. (references) | |
Vietnam | There is much trial usage, but little brand loyalty. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Lengthy trial delays were common. (references) |
Sri Lanka | It had not come to trial at year's end. (references) | |
Singapore | The MDA permits detention without trial. (references) | |
Minorities | Brazil | Of these, 651 were investigated and 394 were brought to trial. (references) |
Czech Republic | On March 5, an appeal by the victims was rejected and the trial court's verdict upheld. (references) | |
Spain | In June 2000, a court freed the two accused after they posted bond; their trial had not begun by year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | France | Long delays in bringing cases to trial and lengthy pretrial detention were problems. (references) |
Ethiopia | Most SPO detainees have been held in custody for 7 or 8 years awaiting trial and judgment. (references) | |
Honduras | The judicial system continued to deny swift and impartial justice to prisoners awaiting trial. (references) | |
Political Rights | Comoros | He was in detention pending trial at year's end. (references) |
Papua New Guinea | The court accepted 40 of the petitions for trial; however, at year's end, there had been no decisions. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Solikh was 1 of the 9 defendants-in-absentia in the November show trial of 12 alleged bombing conspirators. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | The Department of Agriculture, on a trial basis, allowed the private sector to import a small volume of premium rice in early 1999. (references) |
Pakistan | Similarly, domestic industrial firms may import items for test, trial, and re-export, subject only to the payment of a refundable import fee. (references) | |
Women | Mexico | Montero escaped from detention 10 years ago while on trial for 180 cases of rape. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nigeria | Her trial was ongoing at year's end. (references) |
Mozambique | The girl was recovered by the police, and the perpetrators were in detention awaiting trial at year's end. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | The children's escort, a Ghanaian woman, also was arrested; there were no reports of trial during the year. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | This is Plant testifying in a preliminary hearing. This seals the deal for them in order to hold us longer to even get to go to a trial. If this had happened in the United States it never would have even ever gone to trial. |
Brad Silberling | My mother came to the funeral and my parents both came to the trial. They were very respectful, because they didn't know how much we wanted them there. |
Dennis Miller | Look, I'm not going to say that the Robert Blake trial doesn't interest me, because it does. |
Marla Hanson | What were you wearing. In fact, that became a big issue at the trial that I was wearing a miniskirt. You know, God forbid. |
Paul Burrell | In the court room. He beckoned me to come out of the dark, which is the place you sit surrounded by glass. And I stepped out of the dark and went to him. He said, the queen's stopped the trial. I literally embraced him and cried. |
Phil McGraw | That's like one trial learning. You wouldn't do that but once because you would say that didn't work. I didn't get anything out of that. You are getting a payoff for this or you wouldn't do it. |
Rush Limbaugh | Millionaire trial lawyer turned Senator John Edwards, who became one of the ten richest members of the United States Senate off the misery of his fellow men, has riveted the media's attention for two days now. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Beyond the Mississippi the Ioways, the Sacs and the Alabamas have delivered up for trial and punishment individuals from among themselves accused of murdering citizens of the United States. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The ability to support our own cause under any trial to which it may be exposed is the great point on which the public solicitude rests. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This is the hope that beckons us onward in this century of trial. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I shall propose certain administrative changes suggested by the Congress-as well as some that we have learned from our own trial and error. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | History and experience tells us that moral progress cannot come in comfortable and in complacent times, but out of trial and out of confusion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Trial" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Trial" is used about 6,455 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 6,454 | 1,500 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,455 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "trial" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Trial | Last name | 300 | 25,025 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "trial". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gether | N/A | Biblical | The vale of trial or searching |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "trial": acceptance trial ♦ ad on trial ♦ amplified trial load method ♦ as a trial ♦ be on trial ♦ bring to trial ♦ by trial and error ♦ clinical trial ♦ Clinical Trial [Publication Type] ♦ clonal trial ♦ commit smb. for trial ♦ controlled clinical trial ♦ Controlled Clinical Trial [Publication Type] ♦ Coronary Primary Prevention Trial ♦ criminal trial ♦ criminal trial lawyer ♦ diagnostic trial ♦ discharge on trial ♦ field trial ♦ general ledger trial balance ♦ give smth. a trial ♦ nonrandomized clinical trial ♦ on one's trial ♦ on trial ♦ pending the trial ♦ phase I trial ♦ phase I/II trial ♦ phase II trial ♦ phase II/III trial ♦ phase III trial ♦ phase IV trial ♦ prospecting by borings or trial pits ♦ put on trial ♦ randomised clinical trial ♦ randomised trial ♦ Randomized clinical trial ♦ Randomized Controlled Trial [Publication Type] ♦ randomized trial ♦ reliability trial ♦ right to speedy and public trial by jury ♦ rule of trial and error ♦ Scopes trial ♦ sensational trial ♦ show trial ♦ stand a trial ♦ stand trial ♦ stand trial for ♦ state trial ♦ To put to trial ♦ To stand trial ♦ trial and error ♦ trial and error RADIC ♦ Trial at bar ♦ trial attorney ♦ trial balance ♦ trial balance sheet ♦ trial balloon ♦ trial behind closed doors ♦ trial body ♦ trial brief ♦ Trial by certificate ♦ Trial by duel ♦ Trial by inspection ♦ Trial by record ♦ trial court ♦ trial fire ♦ trial flight ♦ trial judge ♦ trial lawyer ♦ trial marriage ♦ Trial of Labor ♦ Trial of the pyx ♦ trial order ♦ trial period ♦ trial plot ♦ trial run ♦ trial trip ♦ vapor trial ♦ vapour trial ♦ voice trial. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trial": trial-and-error, trial-by-jury, trial-by-newspaper, trial-by-trial, trial-by-video, trial-damages, trial-run, trial-size, trial-to-trial, trial-type. | |
Ending with "trial": one-trial, post-trial, pre-trial, re-trial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
clinical trial | 1,013 | free game trial | 59 |
salem witch trial | 901 | salem witch craft trial | 58 |
trial | 615 | o.j simpson trial | 58 |
nuremberg trial | 295 | trial preparation | 54 |
bike trial | 207 | bike game trial | 53 |
peterson scott trial | 173 | laci peterson trial | 51 |
free trial | 149 | moto trial | 51 |
trial lawyer | 139 | trial software | 48 |
game trial | 111 | frontpage trial | 47 |
scope trial | 111 | time trial | 47 |
dna trial | 110 | trial windshield | 46 |
oj simpson trial | 98 | cancer clinical trial | 45 |
nuremburg trial | 93 | american trial lawyer association | 45 |
mock trial | 93 | famous trial | 45 |
trial motorcycle | 82 | aol free trial | 43 |
free porn trial | 78 | murder trial | 42 |
scope monkey trial | 73 | trial action | 41 |
default.mspx evaluation microsoft.com trial windowsserver2003 | 72 | norton anti virus free trial | 40 |
peterson trial | 63 | trial balance | 39 |
witch trial | 63 | christine drowning mother peter son testimony trial wilhelm wilhelm | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | test, shkak inati, provim (examination, noviciate, novitiate, test), provë (assay, audition, averment, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, prill, probation, prolusion, proof, reasoning, rehearsal, run through, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, touch, try, try on, try out, witness), proces gjyqësor, gjyq (court, court of law, forum, judgement-seat, judicature, judicial examination, lawsuit, process, suit, tribunal), gjykim (arbitrament, arbitration, consideration, doom, estimation, eye, impeachment, judgement, judgment, reasoning, verdict), eksperiment (experiment, test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فتنة (appeal, attraction, disorder, glamor, glamour, seduction, spell, temptation), منافسة (competition, concurrence, contest, emulation, rivalry, vying), محنة (adversity, affliction, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, distress, misfortune, ordeal, tribulation, woe), محاكمة (judgement, lawsuit), محاولة (assay, attempt, bid, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, fling, go, shot, try, whirl), مصيبة (adversity, affliction, blow, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, distress, misfortune, ordeal, scourge, tribulation, woe), تجربة (assay, attempt, experience, experiment, go, proof, shot, test, try, whirl), إمتحان (exam, examination, probation, test), إختبار (exam, experience, experiment, ordeal, proof, quiz, test), بلية (mischance, misfortune, sorrow, tribulation, woe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съдебно дирене, опит (attempt, crack, essay, experience, experiment, go, go off, shot, shy, stab, tentative, try, whack, whirl), несгода (disability), неприятно нещо (bastard, nuisance), процес (operation, plea, process), проба (assay, attempt, audition, experiment, hallmark, proof, sample, taste, tentative, test, try, try on, try out), предварително състезание, изпитание (hardship, ordeal, probation, proof, tax, test, tribulation, visitation), досадно нещо (nuisance, vexation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 试验 (Experimented). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stání (hearing, stall, stand), soudní proces (judicial proceeding), pokus (attempt, bid, effort, experiment, shot, test, touch, try, venture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forsøg (attempt, effort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | proefstuk (sample, specimen, test), probeersel (test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | provaĵo (test), juĝado (adjudication), afliktado (affliction, ordeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محاکمه , کوشش (Assay, Attempt, Bustle, Effort, Endeavor, Fist, Labor, Muss, Scramble, Strain, Stretch, Try, Tug), امتحان (Assay, Examination, Experiment, Quiz, Shibboleth, Temptation, Try), ازمایش (Assay, Examination, Experience, Experiment, Shy, Temptation, Test, Try, Tryout), رنج (Agony, Bale, Discomfort, Labor, Pain, Throe, Toil, Tribulation), دادرسی (Judgment(Gement)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toistokoe, satunnaiskoe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jugement, essai (try, trying out), épreuve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Versuch (attempt, bid, effort, essay, experiment, go, shot, stab, test, touchdown, try, trying), Probe (assay, attempt, audition, pattern, practice, prob, probation, probational, proof, rehearsal, rehearse, sample, specimen, test, tryoutUS), Gerichtsverhandlung (hearing, proceedings), Erprobung (proving, testing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δοκιμή (essay, noviciate, proof, rehearsal, test, try, try out, tryout), δοκιμασία (crucible, ordeal, probation, proof, tribulation, tryingness), δίκη (lawsuit, litigation, oyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבחן (examination, test), מס" (temptation, test), תבחין (diagnosis, experiment, test), בחן (examination, quiz, test), סוי (examination, experiment, test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megpróbáltatás (cross, ordeal, scourge, stress, tribulation, try). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | percobaan (afflication, attempt, audittion, experiment, ordeal, specimen, tryout), pengadilan (courthouse, judiciary, jurisdiction), coba-coba, cobaan (ordeal, temptation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | triail (test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prova (approval, attempt, bout, check, demonstration, essay, event, evidence, examination, experiment, fitting, probation, proof, rehearsal, sample, shot, sign, test, token, try), esperimento (attempt, essay, experiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 審判 (judgement, referee, refereeing, umpire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ためし (case, custom, example, experience, illustration, instance, parallel, precedent, test, usage), トライアル , くな", しれ" (ordeal, ordeals, probation, test, trials), し"ば" (judgement, new record, referee, refereeing, umpire), し"ぱ" (brand new, infringement, invasion, judgement, referee, refereeing, sales on credit, umpire, violation), し"り (mentality, truth), し"も" (hearing, interrogation), しよう (application, breeding, cotyledon, employment, extremely important, foliage, leaves and branches, method, personal use, private business, raising, remedy, resource, seed leaf, side issues, specification, sublation, use, utilization, way), さいば" (judgement, year's end), かいてい (bottom of the ocean, court session, guide, ladder, reform, revision, step, stepping-stone), "うは" (comprehensive, deck, erythema, extensive, mimeograph, public hearing, red spots, second half, steel plate, steel sheet, wide, wide-ranging, widespread), ""ろみ (experiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 예심. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | prowallagh (probationary, probationer, probative, provable, test), cooish leigh (lawsuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ialtray experiência (background, essay, experiment, experimentation, feedback, probation, proof, test, try, try-out), aflição (ache, affliction, agony, anguish, anxiety, cross, despair, distress, fear, grief, mourning, ordeal, pain, pang, smart, sore, sorrow, thorn, torture, tribulation, trouble, woe). (various references) proces (act, action, case, course, law, law case, law suit, operation, process, suit, suit at law), probã (alloy, argument, assay, attempt, audition, check up, control, event, examination, exemplar, go, instance, pattern, probation, proof, sample, specimen, test, try, verification, witness), judecatã (award, bar, decision, inquest, judgement, law, reason, Rede, sentence, understanding, verdict, view, wisdom), experienţã (essay, experience, experiment, praxis, proficiency, skill, test), concurs de selecţionare, cercetare (analysis, control, essay, examen, examination, exploration, hearing, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, probe, quest, research, study, test, view), încercare dureroasã, încercare (attempt, crack, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, experiment, go, hardship, proof, shy, suffering, tempting, tentative, test, try, visitation, whack). (various references) судебный процесс (lawsuit, litigation), суд (bench, court, court of justice, court of law, judgement-seat, law, law court, law-court, tribunal), опыт (essay, experience, experiment, test), забег (heat), злоключение (misadventure), попытка (attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, offer, shot, tinkering, try), испытание (assay, dry run, experience, experiment, noviciate, novitiate, probation, proof, test, touch, try). (various references) mòd (a court, assembly, court), deuchainn (attempt, proof). (various references) sudski pretres, suđenje (cognizance, judgement, session), proces (process, working), proba (assay, audition, demonstration, essay, probe, rehearsal, sample, scantling, shakedown, test), opit (experiment), izborno takmičenje (contested election, try out), iskušenje (temptation, tribulation). (various references) ensayo (assay, attempt, essay, exercise, experiment, practice, rehearsal, runthrough, test, testing, touchdown, try), prueba (assay, audition, correction, demonstration, endorsement, event, evidence, exam, exercise, experiment, fitting, Gage, gauge, hardship, indorsation, indorsement, offer, paper, problem, proof, proving, race, sign, test, token, trouble, try out), juicio (good sense, judgement, judgment, mind, reason, reasonableness, sanity, senses, sensibleness, wisdom, wit). (various references) rannsakning (searching), rättegång (action, assize, case, law suit, lawsuit, process, pursuit, suit), prov (audition, display, experiment, prill, probation, proof, sample, sign, specimen, test, token, try out), prövning (affliction, assay, endurance, examination, probation, test). (various references) test (quiz, test, testing), yargılama (argumentation, judgement), sınav (exam, examination, furnace, test), sınama, prova (dry run, fitting, proof, rehearsal, try on), mahkeme (court, court of justice, court of law, curia, forum, law court, tribunal), girişim (approach, attempt, bid, effort, enterprise, essay, fist, go, initiative, interference, ploy, shot, show, step, undertaking, venture), duruşma (hearing), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), deneme (assay, bash, crack, dissertation, effort, essay, experiment, experimentation, fling, go, pilot, practice, probation, proof, proving, shakedown, shot, study, tentative, test, testing, touch, try, try out, whack, workout), dava (action, case, cause, claim, instance, law, lawsuit, litigation, plea, pleading, process, prosecution, suit), örnek (copy, example, exemplar, exemplary, exemplification, guide, illustration, instance, lead, model, norm, object lesson, pattern, precedent, reference, representative, sample, sampling, specimen, type, type specimen, version), çile (hank, hasp, ordeal, skein, suffering, tribulation). (various references) synag (approval, test). (various references) випробування (approof, assay, check out, examination, novitiate, probation, proof, sampling, tasting, test, testing, try), пробний (first, proving, tentative), причина невдоволення, переживання. (various references) sự xử án điều thử thách. (various references) treial, profedigaeth (temptation), prawf (assay, probation, proof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | causa, causae, causam, causas, causis, experimento, experimentum, iudici, iudicia, iudicialem, iudiciaque, iudicii, iudiciis, iudicio, iudiciorum, iudicium, judicium, pericula, periculi, periculis, periculo, periculorum, periculum, rudimentum, temptatio, temptatione, temptationem, temptationes, temptationibus, temptationis, tentatio, tentatio-onis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | essai. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | essai. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 9, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti fauloi en qanatw exaisiw alla dikaioi katagelwntai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si flagellat occidat semel et non de poenis innocentum rideat |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 9, Verse 23 |
| Albanian | Në qoftë se një fatkeqësi mbjell papritur vdekjen, ai qesh me vuajtjen e të pafajmëve. |
| Cebuano | Kong ang hampak magalaglag sa kalit, Siya mobiay-biay sa paghusay sa mga walay sala. |
| Croatian | I biè smrtni kad bi odjednom ubijo ... ali on se ruga nevolji nevinih. |
| Danish | Når Svøben kommer med Død i et Nu, så spotter han skyldfries Hjertekval; |
| Dutch | Als de gesel haastelijk doodt, bespot Hij de verzoeking der onschuldigen. |
| Finnish | Jos ruoska äkkiä surmaa, niin hän pilkkaa viattomain epätoivoa. |
| French | Si du moins le fléau donnait soudain la mort!... Mais il se rit des épreuves de l`innocent. |
| German | Wenn er anhebt zu geißeln, so dringt er alsbald zum Tod und spottet der Anfechtung der Unschuldigen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bila orang yang tak bersalah mati tiba-tiba, Allah hanya tertawa saja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Wai, jikalau kiranya dibunuh-Nya aku dengan sekali dicemuk! tetapi Ia tertawakan segala percobaan orang yang tiada bersalah. |
| Italian | Se un flagello uccide all'improvviso, della sciagura degli innocenti egli ride. |
| Maori | Na ka whakamate tata nei te whiu, he kata tana ki te whakamatautauranga o te hunga harakore. |
| Norwegian | Når svepen brått rammer med død, spotter han de uskyldiges lidelse. |
| Portuguese | Quando o açoite mata de repente, ele zomba da calamidade dos inocentes. |
| Rumanian | Wi dacq biciul ar pricinui mqcar kndatq moartea!... Dar El rkde de kncercqrile celui nevinovat. |
| Russian | еУМЙ ЬФПЗП ПТБЦБЕФ пО 'ЙЮПН Ч"ТХЗ, ФП ЩФЛЕ ОЕЧЙООЩИ ПУНЕЧБЕФУС. |
| Swedish | Om en landsplåga kommer med plötslig död, så bespottar han de oskyldigas förtvivlan. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trial": trialogue, trialogues, trials. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trial": atrial, endometrial, extraterrestrial, industrial, intertrial, mistrial, nonindustrial, postindustrial, posttrial, preindustrial, pretrial, retrial, semestrial, semiterrestrial, sinoatrial, terrestrial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trial": deindustrialization, deindustrializations, deindustrialize, deindustrialized, deindustrializes, deindustrializing, extraterrestrials, industrialise, industrialised, industrialises, industrialising, industrialism, industrialisms, industrialist, industrialists, industrialization, industrializations, industrialize, industrialized, industrializes, industrializing, industrially, industrials, mistrials, nonindustrialized, overindustrialize, overindustrialized, overindustrializes, overindustrializing, pretrials, reindustrialization, reindustrializations, reindustrialize, reindustrialized, reindustrializes, reindustrializing, retrials, terrestrially, terrestrials, unindustrialized. (additional references) | |
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"Trial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crial, drial, erial, ftrival, orial, orrial, strail, thiel, thria, tial, tifal, tikal, tiraz, tirl, Tirpak, tirtal, Tixall, Tjia, Torola, Torrigay, traa, trai, traik, Traill, trainl, traiz, tral, trala, treal, Trealaw, treel, treil, trel, trele, treyal, tria, triac, triall, trian, triap, triar, triat, triek, triel, trifal, tril, Trilab, trile, triol, trival, trocal, troil, trool, Truax, Tryall, Turrialba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trial" (pronounced trī"ul or trī"l) |
| 5 | t r ī" u l | mistrial, pretrial, retrial. |
| 4 | -r ī" u l | rial. |
| 3 | -ī" u l | denial, dial, Lisle, redial, vial. |
| 3 | -r ī" l | rile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: trail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: airt, alit, aril, lair, lari, lati, liar, lira, rail, rial, tail, tali, tirl. | |
-2 letters: ail, air, ait, alt, art, lar, lat, lit, rat, ria, tar, til. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, ar, at, it, la, li, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: artily, atrial, citral, lariat, latria, mitral, ramtil, ratlin, retail, retial, rialto, rictal, ritual, tailer, tailor, trails, trials, tribal, trinal. | |
+2 letters: airlift, alright, article, atelier, citrals, clarity, curtail, dilater, dilator, frailty, inthral, irately, lariats, lathier, latrias, latrine, librate, literal, litoral, maltier, marital, marlite, martial, mistral, oralist, orality, orbital, partial, philtra, plaiter, platier, ramtils, ratlike, ratline, ratlins, rattail, realist, reality, recital, redtail, reliant, retails, retinal, retrial, rialtos, riantly, rituals, saltier, saltire, slatier, starlit, tailers, tailors, talaria, talkier, tallier, tardily, tearily, tertial, timbral, titlark, titular, trailed, trailer, travail, trenail, triable, triclad, trivial, trysail, uralite, virtual. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Derived from | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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