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Hans51 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

What is a 'trial landing'?

What is a 'trial landing'?

"They made a trial landing."

In my textbook. it was interpreted as 'They tried to make a landing.' But I think that 'trial landing is landing people make as an experiment to check out landing systems, so the interpretation is not proper. What do you native English speakers think? I am still stuck with usage of try and trial. Please help me out again.

Thank you so much as always and have a good day.
  

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" More context is needed to make sense of this. Normally, as you say, 'trial —' means a first attempt as an experiment.

— Mister Micawber

  • " More context is needed to make sense of this.
  • Normally, as you say, 'trial —' means a first attempt as an experiment.
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Hans51"They made a trial landing."
More context is needed to make sense of this. Normally, as you say, 'trial —' means a first attempt as an experiment.
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Thank you so much as usual and don't you think that "try" as a noun also implies the meaning of experiment?

I found these two phrases, succeeded on our second try / trial and I agree that trial implies experiment but can't we say try also have a meaning of experiment? In the end, something like give it a try means try something as an experi
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Hans51 In the end, something like give it a try means try something as an experiment?
Generally, yes. I would not be so bold as to assert that it applies to all cases, Hans.
Hans51Or we should distinguish in using trial and try?
I suggest that often the former is a more formal version of the latter.
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