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How to sign: 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";
Categories: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
Within this category: assay, audition, clinical trial, double blind, field trial, fitting, MOT, pilot project, preclinical trial, Snellen test
How to sign: (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";
Categories: legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings
Within this category: mistrial, retrial
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: tribulation, visitation
Categories: affliction
Within this category: fire
How to sign: trying something to find out about it
"a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain";
Similiar / Same: trial run, tryout, test
Categories: experiment, experimentation
Within this category: alpha test, beta test, field trial, road test, trial balloon
