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Tries vs Trying - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tries and trying

is that tries is plural of lang=en while trying is the act by which one tries something; an attempt.

As verbs the difference between tries and trying

is that tries is third-person singular of try while trying is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective trying is

difficult to endure; arduous.

tries

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (try)
  • Anagrams

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    trying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • *1891 , Conan Doyle,
  • *:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
  • Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
  • In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

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