trial
IPA: trˈaɪʌɫ
noun
- An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
- The testing of a product or procedure.
- (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
- An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
- (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- (UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.
- (archaic) An occasion on which armies or individuals meet in combat.
- A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
- A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
- (archaic) The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)
- (grammar) The trial number.
verb
- (transitive) To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
- (transitive) To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
adjective
- Pertaining to a trial or test.
- Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
- Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
- Triple.
- (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.)
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Examples of "trial" in Sentences
- The district court judge heard the trial.
- Bostick asked the trial court to suppress the cocaine.
- That will chill future misbehavior in the trial courts.
- Sultan still awaits the verdict of the trial of the General Court.
- Long refused to divulge the name of the translator to the trial court.
- I agree that the point about testifying in trial is extremely invalid.
- Shortly thereafter, the judges affirmed the judgment of the trial court.
- The Supreme Court includes the Trial Division and the Appellate Division.
- With the suspension of the absolution, the case returns to the trial court.
- It was not satisfied with the lenient court decisions of the war guilt trials.
- If the debtor loses the court trial, costs for the trial are added to the debt.
- Getting to the discovery phase of the trial is the key to getting the real story.
- If Obama did use the term trial lawyer in Newton, I don't see why he cannot distinguish himself further from other candidates.
- Lord Mansfield makes the same observation with regard to another corrective of the short mode of trial, -- that of a _new trial_.
- A half-century later, the trial is a landmark example of freedom of speech, and Howl is one of the most famous poems of all time.
- As far as I understood: He said that first there was a plea to have a closed hearing on the grounds that Adnan and Emin are politically involved and therefore the trial is a matter of social security.
- A lack of contrition would be, for example, if the defendant was purporting to express regret for his crimes in the courtroom, but simultaneously sending anonymous tweets to the effect that the trial is a sham, the judge is bought off, etc.
- Mr. Romney expressed astonishment that his GOP rivals were turning the primary into what he called a "trial" of free enterprise by attacking his record at Bain, a move he said he expected to come from President Barack Obama and the Democrats.
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