trie

See also: trié

English

Etymology 1

See try.

Verb

trie

1. Obsolete spelling of try.
   • 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228

     If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.

Etymology 2

From retrieval.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹi/, /ˈtɹaɪ̯/, /ˈtɹi.eɪ̯/
• Homophones: tree, try

Noun

trie (plural tries)

1. (computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.

Synonyms

• prefix tree

Further reading

• trie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, tire

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Esperanto

Esperanto adverbial numbers

<  2-e	3-e	4-e  >
Cardinal : tri     Ordinal : tria     Adverbial : trie     Multiplier : triobla     Fractional : triona

Etymology

tri +‎ -e

Adverb

trie

1. thirdly

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French

Verb

trie

1. first-person singular present indicative of trier
2. third-person singular present indicative of trier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of trier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of trier
5. second-person singular imperative of trier

Anagrams

• tire, tiré

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin troia (compare French truie), of uncertain origin.

Noun

trie f (plural tries)

1. (Jersey) sow

Synonyms

• couoche
• quétote
• quette

Derived terms

• trie d'bouais (“woodlouse”)