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trying

adj
/ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From try + -ing.

  1. derived from tirer — “to draw, pull, pluck, tug, peck at, extract”
  2. derived from *trīāre✻
  3. derived from *trītō✻ — “to crush, grind, trample, wear out”
  4. derived from trier — “to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”
  5. derived from trier
  6. inherited from trien — “to separate out, sift, choose, select, evaluate, try a legal case”
  7. suffixed as trying — “try + ing”

Definitions

  1. Difficult to endure

    Difficult to endure; arduous.

    • "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
    • Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah

  2. Irritating, stressful or bothersome.

  3. present participle and gerund of try

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The act by which one tries something

      The act by which one tries something; an attempt.

      • When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at trying. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at trying. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at trying

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA