try

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   test patienceverbtransitive

   To put a strain on someone or something, especially to make someone lose patience.

   The long wait at the airport was trying everyone's patience.

   Don't try me, she said quietly.

   UsageSay try my patience. Don't try me means don't make me angry.

   Similartest, strain, tax, stretch

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   rugby scorenouncountable

   In rugby, a score made by touching the ball down behind the goal line.

   He ran the length of the field to score a try.

   England won by two tries to one.

   UsageYou score a try.

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   verbeuphemisticintransitive

   To be attempting to have a baby, used about a couple.

   They have been trying for a baby for a year.

   Did you try for long before your first?

   UsageUsually just we're trying, with nothing after it.

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   wantverbslang

   Used before another verb to mean 'want'.

   I'm not trying to hear that today.

   We're not trying to wait in that long line.

   UsageI'm not trying to hear that means I don't want to hear it.

   Similarwant, intend

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   nouncountable

   In American football, the play after a touchdown to add one point by kicking or two by running or passing.

   The kicker missed the try after the touchdown.

   They went for a two-point try and failed.

   UsageFans usually say extra point or two-point conversion.

   Similarconversion

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    programmingnouncountable

    In programming, a block of code whose errors the program is ready to catch.

    Put the file read inside a try and catch the error.

    Every try needs a matching catch or finally.

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    verbarchaictransitive

    To learn what something is like by going through it.

    Never more Mean I to trie what rash untri'd I sought, The paine of absence from thy sight.

    1667, John Milton, Paradise LostHere, trie means to learn what something is like by going through it.

    Similarexperience, undergo, know, taste

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    verbobsolete

    To get on or manage, well or badly.

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    verbobsolete

    To make metal pure by melting it.

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    verbobsolete

    To sort good from bad, often with 'out'.

    the wylde corne, beinge in shap and greatnesse lyke to the good, if they be mengled, with great difficultie will be tried out

    1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the GovernourHere, tried out means sorted or picked out from the good.

    to try out the wild corn from the good

    Here, try out means to sort or sift one kind from another.

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    melt fatverbdated

    To heat blubber, fat, or honeycomb to get the oil or wax out.

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    sievenounobsoleteUK

    An old word for a sieve or screen used for grain.

    They will not passe thorough the holes of the sieve, ruddle or trie, if they be narrow.

    1603, Plutarch, The PhilosophieHere, trie means a sieve or screen used for grain.

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    adjectiveobsolete

    Very fine or of the best quality.

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    verb

    Used as an order when attacking someone, meaning 'take this blow'.
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    noun

    In chess problems, a move that almost works but fails to one defense.
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    verb

    To settle a dispute, especially by fighting.
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    verb

    In sailing, to wait out a storm with little or no sail, keeping the front of the ship toward the wind.