Trie
Origin 1
See try.
Verb
verb
- Obsolete spelling of try
- 1588?, Robert Browne (Brownist), “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God†in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin),
- If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers
what greuous synne is it.
Pronunciation
tri ("tree"), although some encourage the use of traɪ ("try") or the use of triËeɪ ("tree-ay") in order to distinguish it from the more general tree.Origin 2
From retrieval.
Full definition of trie
Noun
trie
(plural tries)- (computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.