try out (third-person singular simple present tries out, present participle trying out, simple past and past participle tried out)
- (transitive) To test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable.
- (intransitive) To undergo a test before being selected; to audition.
If you want to play varsity, you'll have to try out for the team.
We're trying out for the parts of Romeo and Juliet.
to test something
- Arabic: جَرَّبَ (ar) (jarraba)
- Catalan: provar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 試用／试用 (zh) (shìyòng)
- Dutch: uitproberen (nl)
- Esperanto: provi
- Finnish: kokeilla (fi), testata (fi)
- French: essayer (fr), expérimenter (fr), mettre à l’essai
- German: ausprobieren (de), probieren (de)
- Hungarian: kipróbál (hu)
- Italian: saggiare (it), collaudare (it), testare (it)
- Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu), 試してみる (ためしてみる, tameshite miru), 試みる (ja) (こころみる, kokoromiru)
- Norwegian: utprøve
- Portuguese: provar (pt), experimentar (pt)
- Russian: про́бовать (ru) impf (próbovatʹ), попро́бовать (ru) pf (popróbovatʹ), эксперименти́ровать (ru) impf (eksperimentírovatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: feuch
- Spanish: probar (es), ensayar (es), experimentar (es)
- Swedish: pröva (sv), testa (sv), utpröva
- Thai: ลอง (th) (lɔɔng)
- Ukrainian: про́бувати (próbuvaty), спро́бувати (spróbuvaty), експерементува́ти (eksperementuváty)
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to undergo a test; to audition