try
/tɹaɪ/ · noun
Meaning
- An attempt.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- A screen, or sieve, for grain.
- A field goal or extra point
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To divide; to separate.
- To test, to work out.
- To experiment, to strive.
- To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- Fine, excellent.
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