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Tries vs Trier - What's the difference?

tries | trier |

As nouns the difference between tries and trier

is that tries is plural of lang=en while trier is one who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.

As a verb tries

is third-person singular of try.

As a proper noun Trier is

a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.

tries

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (try)

    • Anagrams

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    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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