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Definition of Try out

1. Verb. Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to. "Test this recipe"

2. Verb. Try something new, as in order to gain experience. "The composer experimented with a new style"

3. Verb. Perform in order to get a role. "She auditioned for a role on Broadway"

4. Verb. Take a sample of. "They try out more bread"; "Sample the regional dishes"

Definition of Try out

1. Verb. (transitive) To test something in order to see if it works. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To undergo a test before being selected; to audition. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Try Out

truthy trutination trutinations truttaceous truxilline truxillines try try-hard try-hards try-in

try-on try for try on try one's hand try one's luck try out (current term) try out one's own chops try square tryal tryals

trye tryed tryer tryers trygon tryhard tryhards tryin' trying trying on

Literary usage of Try out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"... the prosecution should meet and the court try out; and if no counter showing is made by the state, the allegation will ordinarily be taken as true. ..."

2. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"... it being thought by some courts that a hardship would be inflicted upon the parties to compel them to try out first the question whether the federal act ..."

3. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe (1921)
"THE TRY-OUT At last comes the try-out for the actual selection of the team. A definite date has been fixed for a long time ahead. Judges are chosen who are ..."

4. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe (1921)
"THE TRY-OUT At last comes the try-out for the actual selection of the team. A definite date has been fixed for a long time ahead. Judges are chosen who are ..."

5. Records of the Reformation: The Divorce 1527-1533. Mostly Now for the First by Nicholas Pocock (1870)
"And thus fare ye well, and as ye wol the king's good and have my heart and service for ever, try out these things and ascertain me by your next letters. ..."

6. Annual Proceedings: Addresses, Reports, Bibliographies and Discussions (1920)
"How does the try-out person get the information that the job is to be tried out in departments ... From try-out sticker placed on instruction ticket. 13. ..."

7. A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I. to the by George Brodie (1822)
"... upon the principle of the visitation of the church, who should be authorized " to try out and examine by all good ways and means, the offences of all ..."

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