different between try vs turn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?, IPA^(key): /t?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English trien (“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier (“to try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. Believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic ???????????????????? (tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teran? (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”). Alternatively or by confluence, the Old French is from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *triare, of unknown origin.

Replaced native Middle English cunnen (“to try”) (from Old English cunnian), Middle English fandien (“to try, prove”) (from Old English fandian), and Middle English costnien (“to try, tempt, test”) (from Old English costnian).

Alternative forms

• trie (obsolete)

Verb

try (third-person singular simple present tries, present participle trying, simple past and past participle tried)

1. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
2. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
   1. To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
   2. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
      • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

   • the wylde corne, beinge in shap and greatnesse lyke to the good, if they be mengled, with great difficultie will be tried out

   1. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
   2. To extract wax from a honeycomb
3. To test, to work out.
   1. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.

   2. To put to test.
      • 1922, E. F. Benson, Miss Mapp, p. 89:

        “So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”
   3. (specifically) To test someone's patience.

   4. (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
      • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a):

        Mona: Try this vampire bolt on for size!

        Cedric: Why don't you try this alien bolt?

   5. To taste, sample, etc.

   6. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
   7. (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
   9. (law) To put on trial.
      • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:

        The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

      • 1987, Hadi Khorsandi, trans. Ehssan Javan, “It Didn’t Quite Work Out—2” in The Ayatollah and I:

        I sit in front of the mirror and try myself. I am no impartial judge, otherwise I would have had myself executed several times over by now.
4. To experiment, to strive.
   1. To have or gain knowledge of by experience.

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   2. To work on something.

   3. (obsolete) To do; to fare.

   4. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
   5. (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
5. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
6. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.

7. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want

Usage notes

• (to attempt): This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. Conjugations unmarked for tense can take and instead of to, for which also see Citations:try.

• (to make an experiment): This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb try had the form triest, and had triedst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form trieth was used.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to attempt): attempt, endeavor, fand, mint, take a run at, take a stab at
• (to taste, sample, etc): sample, taste

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

try (plural tries)

1. An attempt.
2. An act of tasting or sampling.

3. (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.

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5. (American football) a field goal or extra point

Synonyms

• (an attempt): bash, go, stab, whirl
• (an act of tasting or sampling): sampling, taste, tasting
• (a score in rugby): touchdown (American football)
• (the point after touchdown): extra point (American football)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Old French trié.

Adjective

try (comparative more try, superlative most try)

1. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

Anagrams

• Tyr

Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Standard Written Form) trei
• (Standard Written Form) tri

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

try

1. (Standard Cornish) three

Related terms

• teyr

See also

• (cardinal number): Previous: dew. Next: peswar

Portuguese

Noun

try m (plural tries)

1. try (a score in rugby)

   Synonym: ensaio

2. (programming) try (block of code that may trigger exceptions)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /tr??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tri?/

Verb

try

1. third-person singular present indicative/future of troi

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Numeral

try n

1. neuter nominative/accusative of tri (“three”)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??n/
• (General American) enPR: tûrn, IPA^(key): /t?n/
• Homophones: tern, tarn
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin torn?re (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þr?wan (“to turn, twist, wind”). Displaced native Old English wendan.

Verb

turn (third-person singular simple present turns, present participle turning, simple past and past participle turned or (obsolete) turnt)

1. To make a non-linear physical movement.
   1. (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.

      • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."

   2. (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
   3. (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel.
   4. (intransitive, figuratively) to change the course of.
   5. (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.

   6. (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
   7. (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.

   8. (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.

   9. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
   10. (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
2. (intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
   1. (copulative) To become (begin to be).

      Synonyms: become, get

   2. (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.

   3. To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
      1. (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.

      2. (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.

      3. (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
         • 2017, Michael J. Totten, Into the Wasteland: A Zombie Novel

           His companions had turned him on purpose. Annie, bless her heart, was immune.

   4. To reach a certain age.

   5. To hinge; to depend.
   6. To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.

   7. To change personal condition.
      1. (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
      2. To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
      3. To sicken; to nauseate.

      4. To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
3. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
4. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.

5. (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.

6. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
7. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

8. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
9. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
10. (archaic) To translate.
    • 1735, Alexander Pope, The Prologue to the Satires

      who turns a Persian tale for half a crown

11. (transitive, role-playing games) To magically or divinely attack undead.

Synonyms

• (move around an axis through itself): rotate, spin, twirl
• (change the direction or orientation of): rotate
• (change one's direction of travel): steer, swerve, tack
• (nautical)
• (position (something) by folding it back on itself):
• (become): become, get, go
• (rebel): rebel, revolt
• (shape on a lathe): lathe
• (go bad): go bad, go off, sour, spoil
• (complete): complete

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin turnus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn.

Noun

turn (plural turns)

1. A change of direction or orientation.
2. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
   2. (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
3. A walk to and fro.

   Synonym: promenade

4. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
5. A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.

6. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
7. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
8. The time required to complete a project.

   Synonym: turnaround

9. A fit or a period of giddiness.
10. A change in temperament or circumstance.

11. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
12. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
13. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
14. A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.

15. A single loop of a coil.
16. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
17. Character; personality; nature.
18. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
19. (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
    • 1960, Theatre Notebook (volumes 14-16, page 122)

      Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.

20. (printing, dated) A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
21. (Britain, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
    • 1977, Michael Arthur Firth, Valuation of Shares and the Efficient-markets Theory (page 11)

      There are usually at least two jobbers who specialise in the leading stocks, and this acts to keep the jobber's turn to a reasonable amount […]

Synonyms

• (change of direction or orientation):
• (movement about an axis returning to the original orientation): 360° turn, complete rotation, complete turn, full rotation, full turn
• (single loop of a coil): loop
• (chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others): go
• (one's chance to make a move in a game): go, move
• (figure in music):
• (time required to complete a project):
• (fit or period of giddiness): dizziness, dizzy spell, giddiness
• (change in temperament or circumstance): change, swing
• (sideways movement of a cricket ball):

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (t?n)

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Parts of the knot
• ornament
• trill

Anagrams

• runt

Finnish

Etymology

< English turn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tø?n/, [?t?ø??n]

Noun

turn

1. (poker) turn (fourth communal card in Texas hold'em)

Declension

Synonyms

• neljäs avokortti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Latin turris (“tower”). Cognate with Danish tårn and German Turm. First appears in the 12th or 13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??rtn/
• Rhymes: -?rtn

Noun

turn m (genitive singular turns, nominative plural turnar)

1. tower

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb turne; compare with German Turnen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

turn m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. gymnastics (athletic discipline)

Related terms

• gymnastikk
• turner

References

• “turn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb turne

Noun

turn m (uncountable)

1. gymnastics (athletic discipline)

Related terms

• gymnastikk

References

• “turn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Turm, from Latin turrem, accusative form of turris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /turn/

Noun

turn n (plural turnuri)

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

Declension

Synonyms

• (chess rook): tur?

See also