try out

See also: tryout and try-out

English

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Verb

try out (third-person singular simple present tries out, present participle trying out, simple past and past participle tried out)

1. (transitive) To test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable.
2. (intransitive) To undergo a test before being selected; to audition.

   If you want to play varsity, you'll have to try out for the team.

   We're trying out for the parts of Romeo and Juliet.

Derived terms

• try-out (noun)
• tryout (noun)

 

Translations

to test something

• Arabic: جَرَّبَ (ar) (jarraba)
• Catalan: provar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試用／试用 (zh) (shìyòng)

• Dutch: uitproberen (nl)
• Finnish: kokeilla (fi), testata (fi)
• French: essayer (fr), expérimenter (fr), mettre à l’essai
• German: ausprobieren (de), probieren (de)
• Hungarian: kipróbál (hu)
• Italian: saggiare (it), collaudare (it), testare (it)
• Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu), 試してみる (ためしてみる, tameshite miru), 試みる (ja) (こころみる, kokoromiru)
• Norwegian: utprøve
• Portuguese: provar (pt), experimentar (pt)
• Russian: про́бовать (ru) impf (próbovatʹ), попро́бовать (ru) pf (popróbovatʹ), эксперименти́ровать (ru) impf (eksperimentírovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch
• Spanish: probar (es), ensayar (es), experimentar (es)
• Swedish: pröva (sv), testa (sv), utpröva
• Thai: ลอง (th) (lɔɔng)
• Ukrainian: про́бувати (próbuvaty), спро́бувати (spróbuvaty), експерементува́ти (eksperementuváty)

to undergo a test

• Finnish: kokeilla (fi)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch

to audition

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• Trouty, trouty, tutory