Synonyms of the word

trial

• n. An opportunity to test something out; a test.
• n. Appearance at judicial court.
• n. A difficult or annoying experience.
• n. A tryout to pick members of a team.
• n. (Britain) An internal examination set by Eton College.
• adj. Pertaining to a trial or test.
• adj. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
• v. To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
• v. To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
• adj. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
• adj. Triple.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people; contrast singular,…

affliction

• n. A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
• n. Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

attempt

• v. To try.
• v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
• v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
• v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
• n. The action of trying at something.
• n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

competition

• n. (uncountable) The action of competing.
• n. (countable) A contest for a prize or award.
• n. (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.

contest

• n. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
• n. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
• n. (countable) A competition.
• v. (intransitive) To contend.
• v. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
• v. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
• v. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course…

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

endeavor

• n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
• n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
• v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

• n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
• v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

experiment

• n. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a…
• n. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

experimentation

• n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
• n. (sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research…

proceeding

• v. present participle of proceed.
• n. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
• n. (especially in plural) An event or happening; something that happens.
• n. The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference.
• n. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
• n. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
• n. (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

proceedings

• n. plural of proceeding.
• n. (law, plural only) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. (Can we date this quote…
• n. The published record of the actions of a society, or of things done at its meetings.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

test

• n. A challenge, trial.
• n. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
• n. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
• n. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to…
• n. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
• n. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars…
• n. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
• n. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
• v. To challenge.
• v. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
• v. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle…
• v. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
• v. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its…
• v. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
• v. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
• n. (obsolete) A witness.
• v. (obsolete) To make a testament, or will.

tribulation

• n. Any adversity; a trying period or event.

try

• v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
• v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
• v. To test, to work out.
• v. To experiment, to strive.
• v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
• v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
• v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
• n. An attempt.
• n. An act of tasting or sampling.
• n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
• n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
• adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

tryout

• n. A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially of a performer (an audition).
• n. A trial run.

visitation

• n. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
• n. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
• n. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
• n. The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
• n. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.