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Tried And True

Definition: Tried And True

Tried And True

Adjective

1. Tested and proved to be reliable.

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

Synonyms: Tried And True

Synonyms: tested (adj), time-tested (adj), tried (adj). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Tried And True

Domain	Usage
Clever	Stride and strut goeth before a fall; tried and true goeth before a raise. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Tried And True

Domain	Title
Books	Aunt Sally's Tried and True Home Remedies (reference) Dog Training by Bash: The Tried and True Techniques of the Dog Trainer to the Stars (reference) Toll House Tried and True Recipes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tried And True

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
tried and true	7
recipe tried and true	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Tried And True

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-n-r-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: underrated.
	-3 letters: denatured, detrained, indurated, intreated, irredenta, renatured, retrained, underrate, unreadier, untreated.
	-4 letters: attended, attender, darneder, denature, dendrite, dentated, denudate, deratted, detained, detainer, durneder, indurate, interred, intruded, intruder, iterated, nattered, nitrated, rattened, rattener, renature, retained, retainer, retarded, retinted, retinued, retirant, returned, reunited, reuniter, ruinated, tautened, trendier, truanted, turreted, underate, undereat, unedited, unideaed, urinated.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Tried And True

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

54 72 69 65 64 41 6E 64 54 72 75 65

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

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

01010100 01110010 01101001 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010100 01110010 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#65 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#114 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0069 0065 0064 0041 006E 0064 0054 0072 0075 0065

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

54847571702358070254848771

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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