• Trie

    Origin 1

    See try.

    Verb

    verb

    1. 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),
    page 228
      • 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 triːeɪ ("tree-ay") in order to distinguish it from the more general tree.

    Origin 2

    From retrieval.

    Full definition of trie

    Noun

    trie

    (plural tries)
    1. (computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.

    Synonyms

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