Usually means: Attempt to achieve a result.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. try: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. try: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Try, try: Wordnik
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  9. try: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. try: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  12. Try, Try: Dictionary.com
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  14. try: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Try: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. try: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  25. try: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. try: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. TRY: Investopedia
  5. Try (rugby), try: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
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Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Try (rugby), Try: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TRY: Acronym Finder
  3. TRY: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  5. try: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. try: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. try: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Try: Sports Definitions

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
▸ verb:  To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
▸ verb:  (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
▸ verb:  To extract wax from a honeycomb
▸ verb:  To test, to work out.
▸ verb:  To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
▸ verb:  To put to test.
▸ verb:  (specifically) To test someone's patience.
▸ verb:  (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
▸ verb:  To taste, sample, etc.
▸ verb:  To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
▸ verb:  (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
▸ verb:  (law) To put on trial.
▸ verb:  To experiment, to strive.
▸ verb:  To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
▸ verb:  To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To do; to fare.
▸ verb:  To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
▸ verb:  (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
▸ verb:  To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
▸ verb:  (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
▸ noun:  An attempt.
▸ noun:  An act of tasting or sampling.
▸ noun:  (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
▸ noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
▸ noun:  (American football) A field goal or extra point
▸ noun:  (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

Similar:
attempt, endeavor, try on, try out, test, effort, assay, seek, render, hear, more...

Opposite:
abandon, quit, surrender, neglect, ignore

Types:
penalty try, conversion, drop goal, more...

Phrases:
try and, try out, try for, try on, try hard, more...

Adjectives:
first, worth, second, good, third, more, last, next, fourth, possible, nice


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Similar:
attempt, endeavor, try on, try out, test, effort, assay, seek, render, hear, more...

Opposite:
abandon, quit, surrender, neglect, ignore

Types:
penalty try, conversion, drop goal, more...

Phrases:
try and, try out, try for, try on, try hard, try in, try me, nice try, try outs, try square, try cocks, college try, give it a try, try on for size, i will try anything once, try cock, try it on, try squares, more...

Adjectives:
first, worth, second, good, third, more, last, next, fourth, possible, nice



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