- to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- to test the effect or result of (often followed by out): to try a new method; to try a recipe out.
- to endeavor to evaluate by experiment or experience: to try a new field; to try a new book.
- to test the quality, value, fitness, accuracy, etc., of: Will you try a spoonful of this and tell me what you think of it?
- to examine and determine judicially, as a cause; determine judicially the guilt or innocence of (a person).
- to put to a severe test; subject to strain, as of endurance, patience, affliction, or trouble; tax: to try one's patience.
- to attempt to open (a door, window, etc.) in order to find out whether it is locked: Try all the doors before leaving.
- to melt down (fat, blubber, etc.) to obtain the oil; render (usually followed by out).
- Archaic.
- to determine the truth or right of (a quarrel or question) by test or battle (sometimes followed by out).
- to find to be right by test or experience.
- to make an attempt or effort; strive: Try to complete the examination.
- to lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- an attempt or effort: to have a try at something.
- a score of three points earned by advancing the ball to or beyond the opponents' goal line.
- to put on an article of clothing in order to judge its appearance and fit: You can't really tell how it will look until you try it on.
- to use experimentally; test: to try out a new car.
- to compete for (a position, membership, etc.): Over a hundred boys came to try out for the football team.
- to make a sincere effort: I gave it the old college try and finally found an apartment.
- try it / that on, Chiefly British Informal.
- to put on airs: She's been trying it on ever since the inheritance came through.
- to be forward or presumptuous, especially with a potential romantic partner: She avoided him after he'd tried it on with her.
- to make an effort or attempt
- to sample, test, or give experimental use to (something) in order to determine its quality, worth, etc
- to put strain or stress on
- to give pain, affliction, or vexation to: I have been sorely tried by those children
- to examine and determine the issues involved in (a cause) in a court of law
- to hear evidence in order to determine the guilt or innocence of (an accused)
- to sit as judge at the trial of (an issue or person)
- to melt (fat, lard, etc) in order to separate out impurities
- to extract (a material) from an ore, mixture, etc, usually by heat; refine
- an experiment or trial
- an attempt or effort
- the act of an attacking player touching the ball down behind the opposing team's goal line, scoring five or, in Rugby League, four points
- an attempt made after a touchdown to score an extra point by kicking a goal or, for two extra points, by running the ball or completing a pass across the opponents' goal line
