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Drying vs Trying - What's the difference?

drying | trying |

As verbs the difference between drying and trying

is that drying is while trying is .

As nouns the difference between drying and trying

is that drying is the act of drying while trying is (philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt.

As an adjective trying is

difficult to endure; arduous.

drying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The act of drying.
  • A method of food preservation by removing water.

    • 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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