Meaning of trial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The trial number.
2. process
3. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
4. The testing of a product or procedure.
5. lawsuit
6. A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
7. 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.
8. first-person singular present indicative of procesar
9. A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
10. An internal examination set by Eton College.
    UK
11. An occasion on which armies or individuals meet in combat.
    archaic
12. 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).
13. A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
14. The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)
    archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love and thou / Hast strangely stood the test here”

“had my powers been less limited, I might have enforced obedience; but as it was, it was but a trial of strength between her and me, in which she generally came off victorious”

“Jama saw the sweaty, smelly work as a kind of test that, if passed, would entitle him to see his father, a trial of his worth as a son and as a man.”

“They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.”

“A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).”

“soccer trials; sheepdog trials”

“In both your armies there is many a soul / Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, / If once they join in trial.”

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

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

“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”

“She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold, / Patiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.”

“[…] this case should never have come to trial.”

“2020, Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown, New York: Pantheon, Act VI, Your Honor, we object to all of this. The whole thing. This mock trial. The entire justice system is rigged against my client.”

“That boy was a trial to his parents.”

“That they are Cowards, many have said, but few have found it so in the time of Trial.”

“Poor Justine was very ill; but other trials were reserved for her.”

“I’m afraid I’m going to be a dreadful trial to you. Maybe you’d better send me back to the asylum.”

“[…] I’m not used […] to waiting hungry on others while they eat. It is a sore trial for a hobbit, that.”

“You must be strong now, for your greatest trials are still ahead.”

“Finding my first Seed did not grow, which I easily imagin’d was by the Drought, I sought for a moister Piece of Ground to make another Trial in,”

“He summoned up all his strength for one last trial, and bent his faltering steps towards [the house].”

“After a dozen trials he succeeded in lighting the lantern,”

“Before the first living cell was created, there may have been many trials and failures.”

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