1. (n.)trial the examination of a cause before a court of law, often involving issues both of law and of fact.
2. trial the use of due process to determine a person's guilt or innocence.
3. trial the act of trying, testing, or putting to the proof.
4. trial an attempt or effort to do something.
5. trial a tentative or experimental action in order to ascertain results; experiment.
6. trial the state or position of a person or thing being tried or tested.
7. trial subjection to suffering or grief; distress.
8. trial an affliction or trouble.
9. trial a troublesome, wearying, or annoying thing or person.
10. (adj.)trial of, pertaining to, or employed in a trial.
11. trial done or made by way of trial, proof, or experiment.
12. trial used in or for testing, experimenting, sampling, etc.
13. (adj.)trial of or belonging to a grammatical category of number, as in some Papuan and Austronesian languages, used to indicate that a word denotes three persons or things.
1. (noun)test, trial, run 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"
2. (noun)trial, trial run, test, tryout trying something to find out about it "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
3. (noun)test, trial the act of undergoing testing "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
4. (noun)trial (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"; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"
5. (noun)trial (sports) a preliminarycompetition to determine qualifications "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"
6. (noun)trial, tribulation, visitation 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"
3. (noun)trial the act of testing by experience; proof; test
4. (noun)trial examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc
5. (noun)trial the state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men
6. (noun)trial that which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a soretrial
7. (noun)trial the formalexamination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue