Trial

Quick meaning: Trial is a noun meaning An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.

Meaning

An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.

More Meanings

1. A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
2. Pertaining to a trial or test.
3. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
4. (transitive) To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
5. (transitive) To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
6. (law) 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).
7. (archaic) The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)

Example Sentences

If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.

The journalists have been held in custody for three years without trial.

as she hath / Been publicly accused, so shall she have / A just and open trial

He was charged with war crimes and brought to trial before the International Tribunal.

Word Forms

• trials
• trialing
• trialling
• trialed
• trialled

Synonyms for trial

Depending on context, synonyms include test, attempt, try, model, run, pilot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include experimental, test, tryout, empirical, run, model.

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