To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.

To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.

To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.

To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.

Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

A try is a near miss. It is a White attempt at a solution that fails to some Black defense. For a try to be thematic it should have a single defense and should also show the thematic play the problem was constructed to illustrate. The mating play that follows a try is known as the virtual play. The virtual play solution tree contains every continuation that leads to mate and therefore ignores the refutation. The refutation lines also constitute a tree of moves. A refutation tree consists of all the White moves that follow the refutation and the Black continuation that thwarts White's attempt at mate.

earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world"

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"

put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"

give pain or trouble to; "I've been sorely tried by these students"

test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"

the action of touch the ball on the ground behind the opposing goal line, for 5 points. This is followed by a conversion kick.

a scrimmage play, from close to their opponent's goal line, awarded to a team which has scored a touchdown, allowing them (and in some codes, their opponents) to score an additional 1 or 2 points; also called "try-for-point", "conversion", "convert" (Canadian), "extra point(s)", "point(s) after (touchdown)" or PAT

a score of 5 points awarded when the ball is carried or kicked across the tryline and touched down to the ground by a player. Tryline - the goal line extending across the pitch.

The try keyword denotes a block of code that might throw an exception. If that code does indeed throw an exception, execution jumps to the appropriate catch or finally block. Check out this node for more information on exception handling.

The try keyword indicates a block of code to which subsequent catch and finally clauses apply. The try statement itself performs no special action. See the entries for catch and finally for more information on the try/ catch/ finally construct.