# tries

Pronunciation: say "TRYZ" /tɹaɪz/

## Verb

1. Third-person singular simple present of try. — third-person singular simple present indicative of try
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of try. Use this form with he, she, or it.
   - _Whenever the engine stalls, she tries the ignition twice before calling for help._
   - _The team tries a new strategy in the closing minutes of each match._

## Noun

2. Plural of try. — plural of try
   - Simple: Plural of try. Use it when there is more than one attempt.
   - _It took three tries before the rocket cleared the launch tower._
   - _The winger scored two tries in the second half of the rugby match._
3. Plural of trie. — plural of trie
   - Simple: Plural of trie. Use it for more than one of these tree-shaped ways of storing words.
   - _The autocomplete system stores its dictionaries in two separate tries for speed._
   - _Engineers compared the memory usage of several tries before settling on one design._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tries (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).