tries

Noun

try (plural tries)

1. An attempt.
   • I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.

   Synonyms:

   bash, go, stab, whirl

2. An act of tasting or sampling.
   • I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.

   Synonyms:

   sampling, taste, tasting

3. A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
   • Today I scored my first try.

   Synonyms:

   touchdown

4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
   • They will not passe thorough the holes of the sieve, ruddle or trie, if they be narrow.1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC
5. A field goal or extra point
6. A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.

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Noun

trie (plural tries)

1. An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.

   Synonyms:

   prefix tree