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Try out   /traɪ aʊt/   Listen
Try out

verb
1.
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.  Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, test, try.  "Test this recipe"
2.
Try something new, as in order to gain experience.  Synonym: experiment.  "The composer experimented with a new style"
3.
Perform in order to get a role.  Synonym: audition.
4.
Take a sample of.  Synonyms: sample, taste, try.  "Sample the regional dishes"






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"Try out" Quotes from Famous Books



... asked you to come here this afternoon because I believe the time has arrived to try out a plan which I have had in my mind ever since college began," stated Grace, by way of beginning. Then in clear, concise sentences she told of her desire that her girls should be self-governing and of how much ...
— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower

... had often thought I would like to be, and I told him so. He asked me to call at his studio, and I did. They gave me a 'try out,' found I photographed well, and they cast me for small parts. Then they found out I could ride and they let me do some outdoor stuff. From then on I did very well, and when I heard your company was going to make a big war play, I applied to Mr. Pertell. ...
— The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays - Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm • Laura Lee Hope

... him from whom he received his information and instructions and two below to whom he transmitted them. The initiations were conducted with great secrecy and solemnity, calculated to inspire the new members with awe and fear. The initiate, after a series of blood-curdling ordeals to try out his courage and resolution, swore on a human skull a terrific oath to devote his life and energies to the extermination of the white race, regardless of age or sex, and later affixed to it his signature or mark, ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... accept those which had been tested by experience and found practical of operation. The self-satisfaction of inventing something new or of evolving a new theory is inherent with not a few men. They are determined to try out their ideas and are impatient of opposition which seeks to prevent the experiment. In fact opposition seems sometimes to enhance the virtue of a novelty in the minds of those who propose or advocate its adoption. Many reformers suffer ...
— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

... made more onerous tariff treaties with France than were exacted from her in 1870 and having extended German trade and military influence over Russia, Germany would be in a position with her navy to try out the long desired issue with Great Britain for the control ...
— The Audacious War • Clarence W. Barron


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