try

try meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of try in a sentence

• He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
• Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
• In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
• I sit in front of the mirror and try myself.1987, Hadi Khorsandi, “It Didn’t Quite Work Out—2”, in Ehssan Javan, transl., The Ayatollah and I:

All 40 example sentences with try

Synonyms of try

• attempt
• endeavor
• fand
• mint
• take a run at
• take a stab at
• sample
• taste
• doom
• judge

All synonyms of try

Forms of try

Past tense of try: tried

Plural of try: tries

Origin of try

From Middle English trien (“to separate out, sift, choose, select, evaluate, try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier, triher, triere (“to divide, separate, choose, select, prove, determine, try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Occitan triar (“to choose, sort, scrutinise, peel”), Catalan triar (“to pick, choose, decide”). Suggested to be derived from Late Latin *trītāre (“to crush, grind, trample, wear out”), itself derived from Classical Latin trītus (“rubbed, worn down, pulverised”), the past participle of terō, terere (“to rub, wear down, trample”), though this derivation is incompatible with the Occitan form. Additionally, the shift in meaning from "rub, crush, trample" to "pick out, choose, cull" is difficult to explain. One suggestion is that the semantic shift might have originated from a Latin phrase *granum terere ("to tread the corn (in threshing)"; compare Latin trītūra (“rubbing, chafing, friction" also "threshing”)), which has a parallel in the modern French trier le grain (“to sort the grain”). Alternatively, perhaps derived from Vulgar Latin *trīāre, a metathetic alteration...

From Middle English trye, trie, probably from Old French trié, past participle of Old French trier (“to try”).

Words formed from try

• don't diet, try it
• don't knock it till you've tried it
• don't try this at home
• don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs
• for lack of trying
• I'd like to see someone try
• I like to see you try
• mistry
• must-try
• overtry
• retry
• right to try
• triable
• trisexual
• try as one may
• try as one might
• try-baby
• try conclusions
• try for size
• try-hard
• tryhard
• trying
• try it on
• try it on the dog
• try me
• try-miter square
• tryna
• try-off
• try on
• try-on
• try one's hand
• try one's luck
• try one's wings
• try out
• try-out
• try-outs
• try pot
• trysexual
• try someone's patience
• try square
• try-square
• try the veal
• try titles
• trywork
• captain's try
• college try
• give a try
• give something the old college try
• good try
• interception try
• nice try
• old college try
• penalty try
• Terms derived from the noun try
• try cock
• try over
• tryscorer
• try-scorer
• tryscoring

Related words

• trial
• tried and tested
• tried and true
• trier

Phrases with try

• try line
• try pots
• try work
• try cocks
• try house
• try lines
• try works
• try houses
• try squares
• try on for size
• gave something a try
• give something a try

Words that rhyme with try

• eye
• high
• die
• fly
• by
• dry
• tie
• ai
• Delhi
• apply
• pie
• sky

Questions about try

What does try mean?

Try means to attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

What is try in Hindi?

Try in Hindi is कोशिश करना (kośiś karnā), प्रयास (prayās), प्रयत्न (prayatna). See Try meaning in Hindi.

How do you use try in a sentence?

He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory.

What part of speech is try?

Try can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.

How do you pronounce try?

Try is pronounced /tɹaɪ/.

What is the past tense of try?

The past tense of try is tried.