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Russkiy Bear Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Trial vs Try out (verbs)

I've look them up in the major dictionaries. They seem to mean almost the same thing or do they? Apparently the only difference is trial is British.

Let's try out / trial this new computer / system / running shoes / technique
  

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I can speak only to American usage: Trial is not a verb for us. Let's try [out] the new system. Let's give the new system a test trial.

— BarbaraPA

  • I can speak only to American usage: Trial is not a verb for us.
  • Let's try [out] the new system.
  • Let's give the new system a test trial.
  • In the trial run of the new system, I found...
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I can speak only to American usage: Trial is not a verb for us.

Let's try [out] the new system.
Let's give the new system a test trial.
In the trial run of the new system, I found...
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