2, 3, 5. Trial , experiment , test imply an attempt to find out something or to find out about something. Trial is the general word for a trying of anything: articles sent for ten days' free trial.Experiment is a trial conducted to prove or illustrate the truth or validity of something, or an attempt to discover something new: an experiment in organic chemistry.Test is a more specific word, referring to a trial under approved and fixed conditions, or a final and decisive trial as a conclusion of past experiments: a test of a new type of airplane.7. See affliction.
Just a month from that date, he now no longer believes that to be realistic, and will no longer estimate a timeline for the trial.
Prosecutors Have No Idea When 9/11 Mastermind’s Trial Will Start|Tim Mak|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But during this time, I had to undergo a trial, for which I was entirely unprepared.
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave|William Wells Brown
The Coxeyites had been in camp a fortnight when their trial began.
The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories|Mary Hallock Foote
My son, my son, do not trifle with us in this our hour of trial.
The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877|Various
Whatever doubt exists in verse 12 about trial or temptation vanishes in verse 13.
Studies in the Epistle of James|A. T. Robertson
Yet persons who by melancholy are cast into diseased fears and scrupulosities, are uncapable of this way of trial.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4)|Richard Baxter
British Dictionary definitions for trial (1 of 2)
trial1
/ (ˈtraɪəl, traɪl) /
noun
the act or an instance of trying or proving; test or experiment
(as modifier)a trial run
law
the judicial examination of the issues in a civil or criminal cause by a competent tribunal and the determination of these issues in accordance with the law of the land
the determination of an accused person's guilt or innocence after hearing evidence for the prosecution and for the accused and the judicial examination of the issues involved
(as modifier)trial proceedings
an effort or attempt to do somethingwe had three trials at the climb
trouble or grief
an annoying or frustrating person or thing
(often plural)a competition for individualssheepdog trials
a motorcycling competition in which the skills of the riders are tested over rough ground
ceramicsa piece of sample material used for testing the heat of a kiln and its effects
on trial
undergoing trial, esp before a court of law
being tested, as before a commitment to purchase
verbtrials, triallingortrialled
(tr)to test or make experimental use of (something)the idea has been trialled in several schools
Derived forms of trial
trialling, noun
Word Origin for trial
C16: from Anglo-French, from trier to try
British Dictionary definitions for trial (2 of 2)
trial2
/ (ˈtraɪəl) /
noungrammar
a grammatical number occurring in some languages for words in contexts where exactly three of their referents are described or referred to
(modifier)relating to or inflected for this number