trial
/ˈtɹaɪəl/ verb C2- To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it. · The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.
- To try out (a new player) in a sports team. · The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.
He/she/it trials · Past trialed · Past participle trialed · -ing form trialing
Verb forms
- Base form
- trial
- He/she/it
- trials
- Past
- trialed
- Past participle
- trialed
- -ing form
- trialing
From the library
“Chorus again!” cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of “The trial’s beginning!” was heard in the distance.
“What trial is it?” Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:—
In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!” But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
“They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.”
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