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Trial   /trˈaɪəl/  /traɪl/   Listen
Trial

noun
1.
The act of testing something.  Synonyms: run, test.  "He called each flip of the coin a new trial"
2.
Trying something to find out about it.  Synonyms: test, trial run, tryout.  "A trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
3.
The act of undergoing testing.  Synonym: test.  "Candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
4.
(law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law.  "Most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"
5.
(sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications.
6.
An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event.  Synonyms: tribulation, visitation.  "Life is full of tribulations" , "A visitation of the plague"



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"Trial" Quotes from Famous Books



... her efforts were more poorly rewarded on this trial than the last. Her clothes were nothing suitable for fall wearing. Her last money she had spent for a hat. For three days she wandered about, utterly dispirited. The attitude of the flat was fast becoming unbearable. She hated to think of going back there each evening. ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser
... Mr. Secretary Langley's trial of his flying-machine, which seems to have come to an abortive issue for the time, strikes a sympathetic chord in the constitution of our race. Are we not the lords of creation? Have we not girdled the earth with wires through which we speak to our antipodes? Do we not journey from continent ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb
... and, even under this limitation, they were supposed to owe more to the circumstances of their position—their climate, their remoteness, and their inaccessibility except through arid and sultry deserts—than to intrinsic resources, such as could be permanently relied on in a serious trial of strength between the two powers. The kings of Parthia, therefore, were far enough from being regarded in the light of antagonist forces to the majesty of Rome. And, these withdrawn from the comparison, ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... mind had reached out in all directions. When ambition inspired him to victory it seemed as if there were no obstacle that would check him. Then came the years of trial—seven years of terrible, heartrending cares—the great period, in which the heaviest tasks that ever a man accomplished were laid upon his rich, ambitious spirit, in which almost everything perished which was his own ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various
... he attempted, 'Les Plaideurs,' borrows the incident of the mock trial of the house-dog, amplifying and adding further ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al


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