Trieth vs Tireth - What's the difference?
trieth | tireth |
(try)
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
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, title= (label) To divide; to separate.
# To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
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# (label) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out .
To test, to work out.
# To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
# To put to test.
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# To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
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# To put on trial.
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To experiment, to strive.
# To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
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# To work on something.
# (label) To do; to fare.
# To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
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(label) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
An attempt.
An act of tasting or sampling.
(rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
(American football) a field goal or extra point
(obsolete) Fine, excellent.
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(archaic) (tire)
To become sleepy or weary.
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To make sleepy or weary.
To become bored or impatient (with)
To bore
(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
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(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
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A covering for the head; a headdress.
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Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
(lb) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
(obsolete) To dress or adorn.
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(obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
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(obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
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A tier, row, or rank.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between trieth and tireth
is that trieth is archaic third-person singular of try while tireth is third-person singular of tire.trieth
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *try
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Replaced native (etyl) (from (etyl) (m)).Verb
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- euery feend his busie paines applide, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tride .
- “So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”
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- Let the end try the man.
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- Try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.
- (Milton)
- Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried .
Usage notes
* (to attempt) This is a catenative verb that takes the to'' infinitive. In the future tense, it can take ''and'' instead of ''to . *: * (to make an experiment) This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * SeeSynonyms
* (to attempt) attempt, mint, take a run at, take a stab at * sample, tasteDerived terms
* try-hard * try-miter square * try-off * try on * try-on * try out * try-out * try-outs * try square/try-square * try your luck * trying * try one's handNoun
(tries)- I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it .
- I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it .
- Today I scored my first try .
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Synonyms
* (an attempt) bash, go, stab, whirl * (an act of tasting or sampling) sampling, taste, tasting * (a score in rugby) touchdown (American football )Derived terms
* give a try * old college try * penalty try * worth a tryEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- But he her suppliant hands, those hands of gold, / And eke her feete, those feete of silver trye , […] Chopt off […].
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*tireth
English
Verb
(head)tire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Verb
(tir) (of)citation, page= , passage=As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.}}
- I tire of this book.
Synonyms
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* *Etymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* (rubber covering on a wheel) tyreNoun
(en noun)- the tire of war
- Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.
- men like apes follow the fashions in tires , gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
- On her head she wore a tire of gold.
Usage notes
* Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.Verb
(tir)- [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Alternative forms
* tyreVerb
(tir)- Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
- Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
- Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.
- Upon that were my thoughts tiring .
Etymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.