retrial

[trahy-uhl, trahyl]

tri·al

[trahy-uhl, trahyl]
noun
1.
Law.
a.
the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact.
b.
the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
2.
the act of trying, testing, or putting to the proof.
3.
test; proof.
4.
an attempt or effort to do something.
5.
a tentative or experimental action in order to ascertain results; experiment.
EXPAND
6.
the state or position of a person or thing being tried or tested; probation.
7.
subjection to suffering or grievous experiences; a distressed or painful state: comfort in the hour of trial.
8.
an affliction or trouble.
9.
a trying, distressing, or annoying thing or person.
10.
Ceramics. a piece of ceramic material used to try the heat of a kiln and the progress of the firing of its contents.
COLLAPSE
adjective
11.
of, pertaining to, or employed in a trial.
12.
done or made by way of trial, proof, or experiment.
13.
used in testing, experimenting, etc.
14.
acting or serving as a sample, experimental specimen, etc.: a trial offer.

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Retrial is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
15.
on trial,
a.
undergoing examination before a judicial tribunal.
b.
undergoing a probationary or trial period.

Origin:
1520–30; try + -al2

in·ter·tri·al, adjective
non·tri·al, noun
post·tri·al, adjective
re·tri·al, noun
self-tri·al, noun

trail, trial (see synonym note at the current entry).


2, 3, 5. examination. Trial, experiment, test imply an attempt to find out something or to find out about something. Trial is the general word for a trying of anything: articles sent for ten days' free trial. Experiment is a trial conducted to prove or illustrate the truth or validity of something, or an attempt to discover something new: an experiment in organic chemistry. Test is a more specific word, referring to a trial under approved and fixed conditions, or a final and decisive trial as a conclusion of past experiments: a test of a new type of airplane. 4. endeavor, essay, struggle. 7. grief, tribulation, distress, sorrow, trouble, hardship. See affliction.

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retrial (riːˈtraɪəl)
 
n
a second or new trial, esp of a case that has already been adjudicated upon

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