try
/tɹaɪ/ noun A1- An attempt. · I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.
- An act of tasting or sampling. · I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.
- A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football. · Today I scored my first try.
- A field goal or extra point
- A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
Plural tries
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Anything to please you,” said the old man; “we can but try.
With his last breath he said to himself, “I am rightly served; for what business had I who had never handled a net to try and catch fish?”
“That is very strange,” said Dorothy, “but we must try, in some way, to see him, or we shall have made our journey for nothing.”
“After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains.
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