Definition of trial

"trial" in the noun sense

1. test, trial, run

the act of testing something

"in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"

"he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

2. trial, trial run, test, tryout

trying something to find out about it

"a sample for ten days free trial"

"a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"

3. test, trial

the act of undergoing testing

"he survived the great test of battle"

"candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

4. trial

law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law

"he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"

"most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"

5. trial

sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications

"the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"

6. trial, tribulation, visitation

an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event

"his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"

"life is full of tribulations"

"a visitation of the plague"

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Quotations for trial

Truth fears no trial. [ Proverb ]

To man, in this his trial state,
The privilege is given,
When tost by tides of human fate,
To anchor fast in heaven. [ Watts ]

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [ Syrus ]

That trial is not fair where affection is judge. [ Proverb ]

He whose father is judge goes safe to his trial. [ Proverb ]

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. [ Pliny the Younger ]

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace,
He will be in the furnace with them. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]

He confesses himself guilty who refuses to come to a trial. [ Proverb ]

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight. [ Voltaire ]

The hardest trial of the heart is, whether it can bear a rival's failure without triumph. [ J. Aikin ]

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. [ Fielding ]

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. [ Matthew Henry ]

Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul. [ John Ruskin ]

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

Justness of thought and style, refinement in manners, good-breeding and politeness of every kind, can come only from the trial and experience of what is best. [ Duncan ]

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation. [ Edward Thomson ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph, but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. [ Charles James Fox ]

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]

Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like? - and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]

trial in Scrabble®

The word trial is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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trial in Words With Friends™

The word trial is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters trial:

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Words containing the sequence trial

Words that start with trial (5 words)

Word Growth involving trial

Shorter words in trial

rial

Longer words containing trial

ancestrial

atrial interatrial

atrial intraatrial intraatrially

atrial nonatrial

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mistrial mistrials

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terrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrially

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