TRY meaning: Attempt to achieve a result

We found 46 dictionaries that define the word try:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

try: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
try: Merriam-Webster
try: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
try: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
try: Collins English Dictionary
try: Vocabulary.com
Try, try: Wordnik
try: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
try: Wiktionary
try: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
try: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
try: Infoplease Dictionary
Try, Try: Dictionary.com
try: Online Etymology Dictionary
try: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Try: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
try: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
try: Rhymezone
try: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
try: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
try: FreeDictionary.org
try: Mnemonic Dictionary
try: TheFreeDictionary.com
try: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

try: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
try: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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TRY: Investopedia
Try (rugby), try: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Try (rugby), try: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Try: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Try (rugby), Try: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
TRY: Acronym Finder
TRY: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
try: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

try: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
try: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)

Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
Try: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
▸ 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

Colors:

orange, yellow, green, blue, red, more...