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Try Out

Definition: Try Out

Try Out

Verb

1. Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe".

2. Perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway".

3. Take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes".

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


Synonyms: Try Out

Synonyms: audition (v), essay (v), examine (v), prove (v), sample (v), taste (v), test (v), try (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Try Out

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

Experiment

Verb: experiment; essay; (endeavor); try, try out, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength; road-test, test drive, take for a spin; test fly.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Try Out

English words defined with "try out": burn. (references)
Specialty definitions using "try out": Speech Application Programming Interface, suicidewareV.FC, VFC. (references)
Etymologies containing "try out": trite. (references)

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Modern Usage: Try Out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm here to try out my sea legs. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Are you going to try out for the British fencing team? (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

Lyrics

He had a try out with the Sixers (Stole; performing artist: Kelly Rowland)

Movie/TV Titles

The Try Out (1916)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Try Out

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Switzerland

Personal hygiene products ranging from soap to night creams are ideal for direct sale as home shoppers can try out the various products and profit from the personalized consultation. (references)

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

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Expression: Try Out

Expression using "try out": try out and adjust. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Try Out

Language Translations for "try out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

repeticion, provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, experience, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, validate, venture, witness), 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, trial, try, try on, witness). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جرب (experience, experiment, give it a try, give it a whirl, have a go, pilot, proof, scab, tempt, test, try). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

репетиция (rehearsal), проба (assay, attempt, audition, experiment, hallmark, proof, sample, taste, tentative, test, trial, try, try on), изпробване (assaying, probation, proof, sampling, test, whirl), изпробвам (fit, proof, prove, task, test, try), изпитвам способностите на, изпитвам качествата на. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

試探 (to feel out, to probe, to sound out, to try out). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyzkoušet (audition, examine, prove, test, try on), rafinovat (refine), provìřovací zkouška (tryout). (various references)

   

Danish

  

at undersoege fordampningshaemmende midler i laboratoriet (to try out in the laboratory evaporation-inhibiting substances). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

in het laboratorium speuren naar verdamping-vertragende stoffen (to try out in the laboratory evaporation-inhibiting substances). (various references)

   

French

  

mettre l'essai, faire l'essai de, expérimenter. (various references)

   

German

  

testen (checking, test, testing), probieren (attempt, have a go, have a taste, have a try, sample, taste, test, to try, try), prüfen (afflict, assay, attempt, audit, canvass, check, consider, examine, Gage, gauge, inspect, look at, look into, peruse, prove, proved, question, quiz, review, scrutinize, see into, study, test, to canvass, to examine, to peruse, to review, to test, to try, try, validate, verify, verifying), ausprobieren (essay, sample, tryout). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δοκιμή (essay, noviciate, proof, rehearsal, test, trial, try, tryout), δοκιμάζω (assay, attempt, essay, feel out, prove, sample, taste, test, try, try on). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"עמי" במבחן (put to the proof, try), ל סות (angle, attempt, endeavor, endeavour, essay, examine, experiment, have a go, test, try). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tisztáz (ascertain, clear up, copy, to clarify, to clear up, to demystify, to disclose the truth of a matter, to disentangle, to elicit, to elucidate, to exculpate, to exonerate, to get sg right, to purify, to sex, to solve, to straighten out, to throw light on), próba (assay, experiment, hallmark, pilot, probation, probe, proof, rehearsal, test, trial, try, try on), kipróbálás (probing, proof, test, trying, tryout), kipróbál (experimentalize, prove, put to the proof, test, to probe, to put to the test, to put to the trial, to sample, to test, to try, to try out, try). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mencobakan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

saggiare (assay, test), collaudare (test, try). (various references)

   

Manx

  

prowal (assay, demonstrate, demonstration, depose, deposition, establishment, fit on, proof, prove, proving, test, trial, trial attempt, try, try on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ytray outay

   

Portuguese

  

provar (argue, attempt, attest, deraign, evidence, evince, fit on, make out, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, taste, test, testify, to try, try, try on), experimentar (assay, attempt, essay, experience, experiment, experimentalise, experimentalize, fit on, live through, match, meet with, receive, sample, sense, suffer, test, try, try it on, try on, undergo). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rafina metale, purifica metale. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

репетиция (rehearsal, repetition, run through, try-out), тщательно расследовать, проба (analysis, assay, audition, essay, plate-mark, prill, probe, proof, purity, reaction, sample, sampling, specimen, standard, tasting, test, tryout, try-out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oprobati (test), konkurs, konkurisati (compete), konkurisanje, izborno takmičenje (contested election, trial), iskušati (test), audicija (audition). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

someter a prueba (test, touch), prueba de competencia, 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, trial, trouble), probar (assay, attempt, chance, establish, evidence, experiment, give it a try, have a bash at, like, make good, prove, sample, sip, taste, tease, tempt, test, touch, try, try on, vet), poner a prueba (like, prove, put through his paces, tempt, test, touch, try), experimentar (experience, experiment, experiment with, experimentalise, experimentation, feel, go through, show, suffer, take, taste, test, touch, undergo), ensayar (assay, essay, rehearse, test, touch, try, try over, walk through). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

test (test, tuft), utprova, prov (audition, display, experiment, prill, probation, proof, sample, sign, specimen, test, token, trial), grundligt pröva, försök (attempt, attempts, bid, come on, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, experiment, experimentation, fling, go, shot, shy, stab, test, trial, try, venture, whack). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tasfiye etmek (clear up, close out, depurate, houseclean, liquidate, pay up, purge, revive, sell off, sell out, wind up), yetenek denemesi, denemek (assay, attempt, chance, condition, essay, experience, experiment, give it a shot, give it a try, 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), deneme (assay, bash, crack, dissertation, effort, essay, experiment, experimentation, fling, go, pilot, practice, probation, proof, proving, shakedown, shot, study, tentative, test, testing, touch, trial, try, whack, workout), düzlemek (even, flatten, flush, plane, plaster, point up, shallow, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth out, smooth over), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, unbend, unscramble, upgrade). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kцsenmek (test). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

репетиція (rehearsal, run through), випробовувати (approve, experiment, probe, prove, put to the test, task, tax, test), намагатися зробити, змагання (competition, emulation, games, meet, meeting, strife), проба (alloy, analysis, approof, audition, countersign, hallmark, novitiate, plate-mark, proof, proving, taste, tasting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Try Out

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

explorandam, explorare, explorarent, explorate, exploratorum, exploraverunt, explorent, temptare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Try Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trouty, tryout.

Words within the letters "o-r-t-t-u-y"

-1 letter: rutty, trout, tutor.

-2 letters: rout, ryot, tort, tory, tour, tout, trot, troy, tyro, your, yurt.

-3 letters: ort, our, out, rot, rut, tor, tot, toy, try, tut, you.

-4 letters: or, oy, to, ut, yo.

 Words containing the letters "o-r-t-t-u-y"
 

+1 letter: tryouts, tutoyer.

 

+2 letters: fortuity, touristy, tutoyers.

 

+3 letters: authority, gustatory, puttyroot, rotundity, statutory, tutoyered.

 

+4 letters: autotrophy, multistory, orotundity, outrightly, puttyroots, rubythroat, salutatory, tortiously, tortuosity, tortuously, tuberosity, tutoyering, virtuosity.

 

+5 letters: countermyth, countryseat, extenuatory, fortunately, gratulatory, gustatorily, importunity, intercounty, naturopathy, opportunity, postpuberty, retributory, rubythroats, statutorily, stimulatory, stipulatory, strenuosity, torturously, trustworthy.

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. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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