trie

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See also: trié

English

Etymology 1

From retrieval.

Pronunciation

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.
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Etymology 2

Verb

trie

  1. Obsolete spelling of try.
    • 1588?, Robert Browne, “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.

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Esperanto

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 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tri
    Ordinal: tria
    Adverbial: trie
    Multiplier: triobla, triopa
    Fractional: triona, triono

Etymology

tri +‎ -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

trie

  1. thirdly

French

Verb

trie

  1. inflection of trier:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Norman

Etymology

From Late Latin troia (compare French truie), of uncertain origin.

Noun

trie f (plural tries)

  1. (Jersey) sow

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Portuguese

Verb

trie

  1. inflection of triar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative