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Crier vs Trier - What's the difference?

crier | trier |

As nouns the difference between crier and trier

is that crier is one who cries while trier is one who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.

As proper nouns the difference between crier and trier

is that crier is {{surname|lang=en} while Trier is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.

crier

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who cries.
  • * 1967 , Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul (page 94)
    • Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.
  • An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    trier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
    • (Boyle)
  • An instrument used for sampling something.
  • * 2009 , Stephanie Clark, ?Michael Costello, ?Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)
    • The judge should grasp the butter trier firmly in hand and insert the sampling device as near as possible to the center of the butter sample.
  • One who tries judicially.
  • (legal) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
    • (Burrill)
  • (obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * trier of fact

    Anagrams

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