tryout
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tryout \Try"out\, n.
1. a test of the performance capability of a person, to
ascertain fitness for a particular task; in sports, a test
by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain
in a certain class is determined.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
2. (Theater) one or more performances of a play prior to the
official opening, held at a location outside of the city
where it is to be formally presented, conducted for the
purpose of determining audience response or ascertaining
weaknesses needing correction.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
[email protected]