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Definition of tries

"tries" in the noun sense

1. attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try

earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

"made an effort to cover all the reading material"

"wished him luck in his endeavor"

"she gave it a good try"

"tries" in the verb sense

1. try, seek, attempt, essay, assay

make an effort or attempt

"He tried to shake off his fears"

"The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"

"The police attempted to stop the thief"

"He sought to improve himself"

"She always seeks to do good in the world"

2. test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

"This approach has been tried with good results"

"Test this recipe"

3. judge, adjudicate, try

put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

"The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"

"The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

4. sample, try, try out, taste

take a sample of

"Try these new crackers"

"Sample the regional dishes"

5. hear, try

examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process

"The jury had heard all the evidence"

"The case will be tried in California"

6. try

give pain or trouble to

"I've been sorely tried by these students"

7. try, strain, stress

test the limits of

"You are trying my patience!"

8. try, render

melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities

"try the yak butter"

"render fat in a casserole"

9. try on, try

put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice

"Try on this sweater to see how it looks"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for tries

Poverty tries friends. [ Proverb ]

It is absence that tries fidelity. [ Mrs. J. Hunter ]

Time tries the troth in every thing. [ Thomas Tusser ]

He who tries to prove too much, proves nothing. [ Proverb ]

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men. [ Proverb ]

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

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof. [ Byron ]

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [ Cicero ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them. [ Goldsmith ]

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray! [ Joseph Roux ]

Love is like the rose: so sweet, that one always tries to gather it in spite of the thorns.

Adversity tries men, and virtue strives for glory through adverse circumstances, undeterred by hard obstacles. [ Silius Italicus ]

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

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