trial

CEFRB1

/ˈtɹaɪəl/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
The testing of a product or procedure.
A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.

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all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love and thou / Hast strangely stood the test here
c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1
had my powers been less limited, I might have enforced obedience; but as it was, it was but a trial of strength between her and me, in which she generally came off victorious
1847, Anne Brontë, chapter 3, in Agnes Grey, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 51
Jama saw the sweaty, smelly work as a kind of test that, if passed, would entitle him to see his father, a trial of his worth as a son and as a man.
2010, Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy, Harper Collins, page 65
as she hath / Been publicly accused, so shall she have / A just and open trial
c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]
She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold, / Patiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.
1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part 3, p. 42

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From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.