tries
Because it is a word with a single syllable, tries is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oftries
- An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
- An attempt.
Example: "I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it."
- An act of tasting or sampling.
Example: "I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it."
- A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
Example: "Today I scored my first try."
- A screen, or sieve, for grain.
- A field goal or extra point
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
Example: "I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t."
- To divide; to separate.
- To test, to work out.
- To experiment, to strive.
- To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
Example: "Repeated failures try one's patience."
- (used with another verb) To want
Example: "I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that."
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