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try
Overview of noun try
The noun try has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (5) attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try -- (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try")
Overview of verb try
The verb try has 9 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (345) try, seek, attempt, essay, assay -- (make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world")
2. (16) test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay -- (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe")
3. (4) judge, adjudicate, try -- (put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials")
4. (2) sample, try, try out, taste -- (take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes")
5. hear, try -- (examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California")
6. try -- (give pain or trouble to; "I've been sorely tried by these students")
7. try, strain, stress -- (test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!")
8. try, render -- (melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole")
9. try on, try -- (put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice; "Try on this sweater to see how it looks")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun try
1 sense of try
Sense 1
attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun try
1 sense of try
Sense 1
attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> batting
=> best
=> worst
=> bid, play
=> crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer
=> essay
=> foray
=> contribution, part, share
=> liberation
=> mug's game
=> power play, squeeze play, squeeze
=> seeking
=> shot, stab
=> shot
=> striving, nisus, pains, strain
=> struggle, battle
=> takeover attempt
=> test, trial, run
=> test, trial
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun try
1 sense of try
Sense 1
attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> activity
Antonyms of noun try
Member Holonyms of noun try
Substance Holonyms of noun try
Part Holonyms of noun try
Member Meronyms of noun try
Substance Meronyms of noun try
Part Meronyms of noun try
Meronyms of noun try
Holonyms of noun try
Attributes of noun try
Derived Forms of noun try
1 sense of try
Sense 1
attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
RELATED TO>(verb) try#1
=> try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
Domain of noun try
Domain Terms of noun try
Familiarity of noun try
try used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun try
1 sense of try
Sense 1
attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
> activity
=> variation, variance
=> space walk
=> domesticity
=> operation
=> operation
=> practice, pattern
=> diversion, recreation
=> cup of tea, bag, dish
=> follow-up, followup
=> game
=> turn, play
=> music
=> acting, playing, playacting, performing
=> liveliness, animation
=> burst, fit
=> work
=> works, deeds
=> service
=> occupation, business, job, line of work, line
=> occupation
=> writing, committal to writing
=> role
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> waste, wastefulness, dissipation
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> control
=> protection
=> sensory activity
=> education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
=> training, preparation, grooming
=> representation
=> creation, creative activity
=> dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly
=> line function, line duty
=> puncture
=> search, hunt, hunting
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> operation, military operation
=> measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> organization, organisation
=> grouping
=> support, supporting
=> continuance, continuation
=> procedure, process
=> ceremony
=> ceremony
=> worship
=> energizing, activating, activation
=> concealment, concealing, hiding
=> placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
=> provision, supply, supplying
=> demand
=> pleasure
=> enjoyment, delectation
=> lamentation, mourning
=> laughter
=> market, marketplace
=> preparation, readying
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> support
=> behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
=> behavior, behaviour
=> leadership, leading
=> precession, precedence, precedency
=> solo
=> buzz
=> fun
=> sin, hell
=> release, outlet, vent
=> last
=> mystification, obfuscation
=> negotiation
=> perturbation, disturbance
=> timekeeping
Meronyms of noun try
1 sense of try
Holonyms of noun try
Grep of noun try
accounting entry
acidimetry
actinometry
adjusting entry
affine geometry
african country
algometry
alkalimetry
allometry
allopatry
aluminum industry
analytic geometry
analytical geometry
ancestry
anemometry
anthropolatry
anthropometry
apparel industry
arborolatry
arms industry
artistry
asian country
astrolatry
astrometry
asymmetry
audiometry
autolatry
automobile industry
back country
balkan country
banditry
banking industry
baptistry
bardolatry
barratry
basketry
bathymetry
battle of tertry
bibliolatry
bigotry
bilateral symmetry
bill of entry
biochemistry
biometry
bluegrass country
buffer country
cabinetry
calorimetry
carpentry
casuistry
central american country
cephalometry
chantry
chemical industry
chemistry
circuitry
coal industry
colorimetry
commonwealth country
computer industry
construction industry
coordinate geometry
coquetry
cosmetic dentistry
cosmolatry
cottage industry
country
coventry
craniometry
credit entry
cross country
cytophotometry
danish pastry
daredeviltry
debit entry
demonolatry
densitometry
dentistry
department of chemistry
descriptive geometry
developing country
deviltry
diabolatry
dictionary entry
dissymmetry
doctor of optometry
dosimetry
double entry
electrochemistry
electronics industry
elementary geometry
elliptic geometry
entertainment industry
entry
epic poetry
euclidean geometry
european country
fashion industry
femtochemistry
fetometry
film industry
foetometry
foreign country
forestry
fractal geometry
french pastry
gadgetry
gallantry
gantry
garment industry
gauntry
gentry
geochemistry
geometry
grammatolatry
gravimetry
growth industry
gynaeolatry
gyneolatry
hagiolatry
harlotry
heliolatry
heroic poetry
hierolatry
housing industry
hydrometry
hyperbolic geometry
hypsometry
ichthyolatry
iconolatry
idiolatry
idolatry
immunochemistry
immunohistochemistry
industry
infantry
inorganic chemistry
interpersonal chemistry
isometry
jesuitry
knight errantry
landed gentry
langtry
ledger entry
lexical entry
lighting industry
lillie langtry
line of poetry
lordolatry
marquetry
micrometry
ministry
mirror symmetry
monolatry
mother country
movie industry
munitions industry
musketry
neuropsychiatry
non-euclidean geometry
north american country
notebook entry
nuclear chemistry
oil industry
old country
ophiolatry
optometry
organic chemistry
pageantry
palmistry
pantry
parabolic geometry
pargetry
parquetry
pastry
peasantry
pedantry
pelvimetry
photochemistry
photometry
phratry
physical chemistry
plane geometry
plastics industry
pleasantry
pleximetry
podiatry
poetry
point of entry
port of entry
poultry
projective geometry
psychiatry
psychometry
puppetry
pyrochemistry
pyrolatry
radial asymmetry
radial symmetry
radiochemistry
reentry
refining industry
registry
riemannian geometry
right of entry
right of re-entry
rocketry
scandinavian country
school of dentistry
securities industry
selenolatry
sentry
service industry
shipbuilding industry
shoe industry
sign industry
single entry
sociometry
solid geometry
sophistry
south american country
space-reflection symmetry
spectrometry
spherical geometry
spherical trigonometry
spirometry
steel industry
stoichiometry
sunrise industry
supersymmetry
symbolatry
symbololatry
symmetry
sympatry
tapestry
telemetry
tenantry
tertry
thaumatolatry
thermochemistry
thermogravimetry
thermometry
tobacco industry
toiletry
topolatry
touristry
toy industry
trigonometry
trinketry
trucking industry
try
try-on
try square
trygve halvden lie
trygve lie
trying on
tryout
trypetidae
trypsin
trypsinogen
tryptophan
tryptophane
tryst
verbolatry
vestry
viscometry
viscosimetry
west country
zealotry
zoolatry
Antonyms of verb try
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb try
9 senses of try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> act, move
Also See> try out#1
Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sense 5
hear, try
=> probe, examine
=> investigate, look into
=> analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
Sense 6
try
=> pain, anguish, hurt
=> upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> make, create
Sense 7
try, strain, stress
=> afflict
=> upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> make, create
Sense 8
try, render
=> melt, run, melt down
=> dissolve, resolve, break up
=> change integrity
=> change
Sense 9
try on, try
=> wear, put on, get into, don, assume
=> dress, get dressed
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb try
6 of 9 senses of try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> take a dare, pick up the gauntlet
=> fight, struggle
=> have a go, give it a try
=> grope
=> endeavor, endeavour, strive
=> give it a whirl, give it a try
=> gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance
=> risk, put on the line, lay on the line
Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
=> control, verify
=> float
=> field-test
Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
=> court-martial
Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
=> degust
Sense 5
hear, try
=> rehear, retry
Sense 7
try, strain, stress
=> rack
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb try
9 senses of try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> act, move
Also See> try out#1
Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sense 5
hear, try
=> probe, examine
Sense 6
try
=> pain, anguish, hurt
Sense 7
try, strain, stress
=> afflict
Sense 8
try, render
=> melt, run, melt down
Sense 9
try on, try
=> wear, put on, get into, don, assume
'Cause To' of verb try
Derived Forms of verb try
6 of 9 senses of try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
RELATED TO>(noun) try#1
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
RELATED TO>(noun) trier#2
=> trier, attempter, essayer
Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
RELATED TO>(noun) trier#2
=> trier, attempter, essayer
RELATED TO>(noun) trial#7
=> test, trial
Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
RELATED TO>(noun) trier#1
=> trier
RELATED TO>(noun) trial#4
=> trial
Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
RELATED TO>(noun) trier#2
=> trier, attempter, essayer
RELATED TO>(noun) trial#5
=> trial, trial run, test, tryout
Sense 5
hear, try
RELATED TO>(noun) trier#1
=> trier
Sense 6
try
RELATED TO>(noun) trial#6
=> trial, tribulation, visitation
Domain of verb try
1 of 9 senses of try
Sense 8
try, render
TOPIC>(noun) cooking#1, cookery#1, preparation#8
Domain Terms of verb try
Familiarity of verb try
try used as a verb is familiar (polysemy count =9)
Sample Sentences of verb try
9 senses of try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
EX: They try to move
Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
EX: They want to try the prisoners
Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
EX: They try more bread
Sense 5
hear, try
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
try
EX: Sam cannot try Sue
Sense 7
try, strain, stress
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 8
try, render
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 9
try on, try
EX: They try the cape
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb try
9 senses of try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
> act, move
=> alternate, take turns
=> finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish
=> rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate
=> interrupt, disturb
=> react, respond
=> go ahead, plow ahead
=> attack, aggress
=> force
=> create
=> come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out
=> reward, repay, pay back
=> satisfice, staisfise
=> maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre
=> dispatch
=> evade
=> race
=> use
=> play it by ear
=> play
=> deal
=> partner
=> exert
=> egotrip
=> reciprocate
=> go, proceed, move
=> come close
=> perform
=> make bold, dare, presume
=> prosecute, engage, pursue
=> act on
=> interact
=> react, oppose
=> take time by the forelock
=> coact
=> volunteer, offer
=> get around to
=> dally, toy, play, flirt
=> set about, go about, approach
=> participate, take part
=> misbehave, misconduct, misdemean
=> condescend, stoop, lower oneself
=> behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry
=> behave, comport
=> try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> woo, court, romance, solicit
=> court
=> dare
=> effect
=> antagonize, antagonise, counteract
=> anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter
=> prosecute
=> perpetrate, commit, pull
=> rampage
=> cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage
=> condescend, deign, descend
=> condescend
=> take care
=> lord it over, queen it over, put on airs, act superior
=> stampede
=> make a point, make sure
=> repeat, take over
=> surprise
=> sneak
=> play
=> take
=> guard
=> begin, start
=> go off half-cocked, go off at half-cock
=> wait, hold off, hold back
=> continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep
=> do well, had best
=> continue
=> continue, persist in
Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> rate, rank, range, order, grade, place
=> stand
=> approve
=> disapprove
=> choose
=> prejudge
=> measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
=> reappraise
=> reject
=> accept
=> think, believe, consider, conceive
=> calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast
=> expect, anticipate
=> impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
=> assign, attribute
=> disapprove, reject
=> declare, adjudge, hold
=> review, critique
=> fail
=> pass
=> test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
> decide, make up one's mind, determine
=> measure, mensurate, measure out
=> choose, take, select, pick out
=> will
=> seal
=> purpose, resolve
=> rule, decree
=> orient, orientate
=> judge, adjudicate, try
=> regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern
Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
=> hit
=> cannibalize, cannibalise
=> use, habituate
=> eat
=> eat
=> drink, imbibe
=> drink, booze, fuddle
=> partake, touch
=> feed, eat
=> satiate, sate, replete, fill
=> sample, try, try out, taste
=> take in, sop up, suck in, take up
=> smoke
=> drug, do drugs
=> swallow, get down
=> sup
Sense 5
hear, try
> probe, examine
=> investigate, inquire, enquire
=> re-examine
=> hear, try
Sense 6
try
> pain, anguish, hurt
=> break someone's heart
=> agonize, agonise
=> try
=> torment, torture, excruciate, rack
Sense 7
try, strain, stress
> afflict
=> grieve, aggrieve
=> tribulate
=> try, strain, stress
Sense 8
try, render
> melt, run, melt down
=> fuse
=> try, render
Sense 9
try on, try
> wear, put on, get into, don, assume
=> hat
=> try on, try
=> scarf
=> slip on
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb try
Sense 1
try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> act, move
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Sense 2
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
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Sense 3
judge, adjudicate, try
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
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Sense 4
sample, try, try out, taste
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
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Sense 5
hear, try
=> probe, examine
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Sense 6
try
=> pain, anguish, hurt
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Sense 7
try, strain, stress
=> afflict
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Sense 8
try, render
=> melt, run, melt down
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Sense 9
try on, try
=> wear, put on, get into, don, assume
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Grep of verb try
give it a try
retry
try
try for
try on
try out
Grep of adj try
cross-country
paltry
sultry
sweltry
trying
upcountry
wintry
Grep of adv try
across the country
cross-country
up-country
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