What's the difference between retry and try?

Retry


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Announcing that the acquittal on 1 November was erroneous, the Athens public prosecutor's office said the journalist should be retried by a higher misdemeanour court on the same charges.
  • (2) Twenty-four-hour blood pressure monitoring in two of the four centers demonstrated an error code rate of 3.4%, excluding 'retries' that are one of the device's features.
  • (3) Allen was due to be retried at Woolwich crown court in south-east London after an Old Bailey jury failed to reach a verdict in January.
  • (4) He will be retried along with the paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman who allegedly requested the payments.
  • (5) He was due to be retried at Woolwich crown court in south-east London but the Crown Prosecution Service revealed last week that he had admitted three charges relating to the plot.
  • (6) But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried earlier this month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
  • (7) It is able to quash a lower court's verdict if it finds errors of law were made, as it did last March when it annulled the pair's 2011 acquittals and ordered the Florence appeals court to retry the appeal.
  • (8) And you can never be afraid of being you.” Dunn was later retried and convicted in October for the killing of Davis, and we all breathed a brief sigh of relief that the jury believed Davis’ life mattered enough to punish the man who took it .
  • (9) State solicitor Scarlett Wilson said in a statement she would retry the case “whenever the court calls”.
  • (10) Only this year, the UK’s supreme court ruled that for the past 30 years British judges have been misconstruing crucial aspects of the joint enterprise guidelines, which may yet lead to scores, if not hundreds, of cases being reassessed and possibly retried.
  • (11) The family thanked him for a strong presentation,” he told the Guardian, “but they made it very, very clear that they definitely want to see the case put before a new jury and that this thing get retried.” Samuel DuBose police shooting: settlement 'won't bring Sam back' Read more DuBose’s family felt supported by the prosecutor and the community, Gerhardstein said, but felt the mistrial was a “terrible way to get any sort of resolution in this tragedy”.
  • (12) He will be retried along with the paper’s former royal editor Clive Goodman.
  • (13) It was the European court of human rights in Strasbourg that decided , in January 2012, that there was a real risk of Qatada being retried in Jordan on evidence that had been obtained by the torture of his two co-defendants.
  • (14) But after his appeal was dismissed, Fayadh, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia , was retried and a new panel of judges last week ruled that he should be executed.
  • (15) Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.
  • (16) "I think if they are not freed they must be retried with a fair trial because all of the trials were unfair with confessions extracted by torture and a lack of an independent judge.
  • (17) Now we can stop being distracted by elections and get back to work on what's really needed: releasing military prisoners, retrying those convicted in military courts, implementing a minimum and maximum wage, and so on."
  • (18) Three journalists from its English-language channel are being retried on charges of being part of a terrorist group and airing falsified footage.
  • (19) " Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.
  • (20) The families of all three victims are pushing to have their cases retried as a single trial .

Try


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.
  • (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
  • (v. t.) To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
  • (v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
  • (v. t.) To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.
  • (v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.
  • (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.
  • (v. t.) To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.
  • (v. t.) To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.
  • (v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.
  • (v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.
  • (v. i.) To do; to fare; as, how do you try!
  • (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
  • (n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.
  • (v. t.) Refined; select; excellent; choice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would be nice if it was more ... but I am trying."
  • (2) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (3) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
  • (5) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (6) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (7) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (8) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (9) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
  • (10) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
  • (11) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (12) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
  • (13) A complex of vitamins exerting a protective action on the system of coenzymic acetylation in the body have been tried.
  • (14) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
  • (15) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (16) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
  • (17) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
  • (19) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
  • (20) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.

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