Trier vs Trie - What's the difference?
trier | trie |
One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
An instrument used for sampling something.
* 2009 , Stephanie Clark, ?Michael Costello, ?Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)
One who tries judicially.
(legal) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
(obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
* 1588? , , “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),
(computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
As nouns the difference between trier and trie
is that trier is one who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard while trie is an ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.As a proper noun Trier
is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.As a verb trie is
obsolete spelling of lang=en.trier
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Boyle)
- 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.
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- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* trier of factAnagrams
* English agent nouns ----trie
English
Etymology 1
See try.Verb
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- 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.
