TRIAL
Definition:
- [noun] (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"
- [noun] the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"
Synonyms: test, run
- [noun] (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"
- [noun] (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"
- [noun] trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
Synonyms: run, test, tryout
- [noun] an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"
Synonyms: tribulation, visitation
- [noun] the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
Synonyms: test
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Related Words:
- mistrial
- retrial
- assay
- clinical trial, clinical test
- double blind
- preclinical trial, preclinical test, preclinical phase
- audition, tryout
- field trial
- fitting, try-on, trying on
- MOT, MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test
- pilot project, pilot program
- Snellen test
- court-martial
- ordeal, trial by ordeal
- Scopes trial
- show trial
- field trial, field test
- alpha test
- beta test
- road test
- trial balloon
- fire
