trial
/ˈtɹaɪəl/ noun B2- An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
- The testing of a product or procedure. · They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
- A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc. · A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
- An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example. · soccer trials; sheepdog trials
- A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime). · If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.· He was charged with war crimes and brought to trial before the International Tribunal.
- A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety. · That boy was a trial to his parents.
Plural trials
From the library
“The trial cannot proceed,” said the King in a very grave voice, “until all the jurymen are back in their proper places—_all_,” he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said so.
She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she said to herself; “I should think it would be _quite_ as much use in the trial one way up as the other.”
de Villefort,” cried a beautiful young creature, daughter to the Comte de Salvieux, and the cherished friend of Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran, “do try and get up some famous trial while we are at Marseilles.
“Indeed I am,” replied the young magistrate with a smile; “and in the interesting trial that young lady is anxious to witness, the case would only be still more aggravated.
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