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Definition: Try Out |
Try OutVerb1. 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 OutSynonyms: audition (v), essay (v), examine (v), prove (v), sample (v), taste (v), test (v), try (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Try Out |
| English words defined with "try out": burn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "try out": Speech Application Programming Interface, suicideware ♦ V.FC, VFC. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "try out": trite. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
Expression using "try out": try out and adjust. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) rafina metale, purifica metale. (various references) 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) oprobati (test), konkurs, konkurisati (compete), konkurisanje, izborno takmičenje (contested election, trial), iskušati (test), audicija (audition). (various references) 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) 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) 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) kцsenmek (test). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | explorandam, explorare, explorarent, explorate, exploratorum, exploraverunt, explorent, temptare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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