Without authoritative statements saying otherwise, benefit will be presumed and enrollmentin randomised trials will suffer.
Large-scale farm trials will start in the spring.
2. sport
an event testing skill
horse trials
He has been riding in horse trials for years.
sheepdog trials
Examples of 'trials' in a sentence
trials
He's a botanist, interested in this sort of thing -- and he's read about the Marquess of Bute's trials.
Melville, Anne THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
He had been given Prozac, a new anti-depressant, still undergoing clinical trials, by Dr Rosamund Plaidy.
Weldon, Fay SPLITTING
He was up till late, working on the latest arrangements f or the airworthiness trials, to have it out of the way.
Davis, John Gordon SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
All related terms of 'trials'
trial
A trial is a formal meeting in a law court, at which a judge and jury listen to evidence and decide whether a person is guilty of a crime .
trialled
the act or an instance of trying or proving ; test or experiment
road-trials
a road test
sea trials
a series of trial runs to test the performance of a new ship
horse trials
a competitive sporting event at which riders have to show their skill in dressage , show-jumping, and cross-country
show trial
People describe a trial as a show trial if they believe that the trial is unfair and is held for political reasons rather than in order to find out the truth .
time trial
In cycling and some other sports , a time trial is a contest in which competitors race along a course individually, in as fast a time as possible , instead of racing directly against each other.
field trial
a test of or contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency and standard of training in retrieving or pointing
murder trial
the trial of a person who is accused of murder
Bernoulli trial
one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success , such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
clinical trial
When a new type of drug or medical treatment undergoes clinical trials , it is tested directly on patients to see if it is effective .
sheepdog trial
a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
preproduction trial
a trial to test a prototype of a product before the product goes into full-scale production