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.
- 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.