trial vs trust

trial

noun
  • An opportunity to test something out; a test. 

  • Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined. 

  • A difficult or annoying experience, (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety 

  • A clinical trial, a research study. 

  • A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln. 

  • The trial number. 

  • A tryout to pick members of a team. 

  • An internal examination set by Eton College. 

adj
  • Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis. 

  • Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.) 

  • Pertaining to a trial or test. 

  • Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. 

  • Triple. 

verb
  • To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it. 

  • To try out (a new player) in a sports team. 

trust

noun
  • That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. 

  • Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. 

  • A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees. 

  • Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system. 

  • Trustworthiness, reliability. 

  • That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge. 

  • The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. 

  • Dependence upon something in the future; hope. 

  • The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another. 

  • An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood. 

  • Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. 

verb
  • To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it). 

  • To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. 

  • To give credence to; to believe; to credit. 

  • To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid. 

  • to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something. 

  • To commit, as to one's care; to entrust. 

  • To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. 

  • To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object) 

  • To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in. 

adj
  • of or relating to a trust. 

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