THESAURUS
tryout
Gedankenexperiment, arrangement, attention, audience, audition, basic training, bench test, benefit, bill, briefing, bugging, clearing the decks, conference, debut, dry run, ear, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, entertainment, equipment, exhibit, exhibition, familiarization, farewell performance, favorable attention, fixing, flesh show, flight test, foundation, groundwork, hearing, interview, listening, listening in, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mobilization, performance, pilot plan, planning, practical test, practice, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, premiere, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, presentation, presentment, pretreatment, processing, production, propaedeutic, provision, readying, rehearsal, road test, shakedown, shakedown cruise, show, spadework, stage presentation, swan song, test flight, test run, theatrical performance, training, treatment, trial, trial run, warm-up, wiretapping, workout
ROGET THESAURUS
tryout
Experiment
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experiment, essay, analysis, screen, trial, tentative method, t=atonnement, verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration), criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test, crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix, assay, ordeal, ring, litmus paper, curcuma paper, turmeric paper, test tube, analytical instruments, empiricism, rule of thumb, feeler, trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon, pilot engine, scout, straw to show the wind, speculation, random shot, leap in the dark, analyzer, analyst, assayist, adventurer, experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist, scientist, engineer, technician, subject, experimentee, guinea pig, experimental animal, protocol, experimental method, blind experiment, double-blind experiment, controlled experiment, poll, survey, opinion poll, epidemiological survey, retrospective analysis, retrospective survey, prospective survey, prospective analysis, statistical analysis, literature search, library research,
tryout, audition, discovery, measurement, evidence, deduction, induction, abduction, experimental, empirical, probative, probatory, probationary, provisional, analytic, docimastic, tentative, unverified, unproven, speculative, untested, on trial, under examination, on probation, under probation, on one's trial, on approval, check it out, give it a try, see how it goes, Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.