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There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
Ashton Eaton

Meaning of "retry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RETRY

retry  [riːˈtraɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RETRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Retry is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb retry in English.

WHAT DOES RETRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Retry

Retry is an upcoming free-to-play retro-styled side-scrolling video game developed by Rovio LVL11 and published by Rovio Entertainment. Inspired by Flappy Bird, Retry has similar controls. The game was soft launched in Finland, Canada, and Poland in early 2014. Global iOS Launch is expected sometime in the middle of 2014. The Android version is under development.

Definition of retry in the English dictionary

The definition of retry in the dictionary is to try again ; give a new trial to.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RETRY

PRESENT

Present
I retry
you retry
he/she/it retries
we retry
you retry
they retry
Present continuous
I am retrying
you are retrying
he/she/it is retrying
we are retrying
you are retrying
they are retrying
Present perfect
I have retried
you have retried
he/she/it has retried
we have retried
you have retried
they have retried
Present perfect continuous
I have been retrying
you have been retrying
he/she/it has been retrying
we have been retrying
you have been retrying
they have been retrying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I retried
you retried
he/she/it retried
we retried
you retried
they retried
Past continuous
I was retrying
you were retrying
he/she/it was retrying
we were retrying
you were retrying
they were retrying
Past perfect
I had retried
you had retried
he/she/it had retried
we had retried
you had retried
they had retried
Past perfect continuous
I had been retrying
you had been retrying
he/she/it had been retrying
we had been retrying
you had been retrying
they had been retrying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will retry
you will retry
he/she/it will retry
we will retry
you will retry
they will retry
Future continuous
I will be retrying
you will be retrying
he/she/it will be retrying
we will be retrying
you will be retrying
they will be retrying
Future perfect
I will have retried
you will have retried
he/she/it will have retried
we will have retried
you will have retried
they will have retried
Future perfect continuous
I will have been retrying
you will have been retrying
he/she/it will have been retrying
we will have been retrying
you will have been retrying
they will have been retrying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would retry
you would retry
he/she/it would retry
we would retry
you would retry
they would retry
Conditional continuous
I would be retrying
you would be retrying
he/she/it would be retrying
we would be retrying
you would be retrying
they would be retrying
Conditional perfect
I would have retry
you would have retry
he/she/it would have retry
we would have retry
you would have retry
they would have retry
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been retrying
you would have been retrying
he/she/it would have been retrying
we would have been retrying
you would have been retrying
they would have been retrying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you retry
we let´s retry
you retry
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to retry
Past participle
retried
Present Participle
retrying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RETRY


awry
əˈraɪ
braai
braɪ
cry
kraɪ
dry
draɪ
fry
fraɪ
Madurai
ˈmædjʊˌraɪ
mitraille
miːˈtraɪ
outcry
ˈaʊtˌkraɪ
pry
praɪ
pylori
paɪˈlɔːraɪ
rai
raɪ
rye
raɪ
samurai
ˈsæmʊˌraɪ
serai
sɛˈraɪ
sori
ˈsɔːraɪ
stir-fry
ˈstɜːˈfraɪ
tori
ˈtɔːraɪ
try
traɪ
trye
traɪ
wry
raɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RETRY

retroreflective
retroreflector
retrorocket
retrorse
retrorsely
retrosexual
retrospect
retrospection
retrospective
retrospectively
retrospectiveness
retroussage
retroverse
retroversion
retrovert
retroverted
Retrovir
retroviral
retrovirus
retsina

WORDS THAT END LIKE RETRY

altimetry
asymmetry
audiometry
biometry
cabinetry
calorimetry
corsetry
cytometry
geometry
morphometry
optometry
poetry
spectrometry
stoichiometry
supersymmetry
symmetry
telemetry
toiletry
trigonometry
velocimetry

Synonyms and antonyms of retry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «retry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RETRY

Find out the translation of retry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of retry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «retry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

重试
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reintentar
570 millions of speakers

English

retry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुन: प्रयास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أعد المحاولة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

повторите
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tente novamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুনরায় চেষ্টা করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

refaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cuba semula
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wiederholen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

再試行
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다시 시도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Coba maneh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thử lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீண்டும் முயற்சிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुन्हा प्रयत्न करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yeniden denemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Riprova
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ponów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повторіть
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

încercați din nou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξαναδοκιμάσετε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

probeer weer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Försök igen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prøve på nytt
5 millions of speakers

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RETRY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about retry

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2 QUOTES WITH «RETRY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word retry.
1
Ashton Eaton
There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
2
Robert Shapiro
The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETRY»

Discover the use of retry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to retry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
A collection of commentaries, quotations, computer dumps, and cartoons explores the post-baby-boom generation's growing influence on American culture
Neil Howe, William Strauss, 1993
2
The Ruby Programming Language
5.5.5 retry The retry statement is normally used in a rescue clause to reexecute a block of code that raised an exception. This is described in §5.6.3.5. In Ruby 1.8, however, retry has another use: it restarts an iterator-based iteration (or any ...
David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto, 2008
3
802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide: The ...
When an error is detected, the station with data must resend the frame. Errors must be detected by the sending station. In some cases, the sender can infer frame loss by the lack of a positive acknowledgment from the receiver. Retry counters ...
Matthew Gast, 2005
4
PCI Express System Architecture
PCI Delayed Transaction Protocol PCI Retry Protocol: When a PCI master initiates a transaction to access a target device and the target device is not ready, the target signals a transaction retry. This scenario is illustrated in Figure 1-7.
Ravi Budruk, 2004
5
PCI and PCI-X Hardware and Software: Architecture and Design
The assertion of the SERR# signal line has no bearing on the aforementioned requirement to repeat the “exact same” bus transaction that completed with Retry termination. Similarly, the requirement to continue repeating the “exact same” bus  ...
Edward Solari, George Willse, 2005
6
Building a Cisco Wireless Lan
time retry counter exceeding the allowed retry time for a child bridge, the parent/ child bridge relationship will be dissolved. You can configure the Time Retry counter from 1 second to 30 seconds. I Count Retry option (Radio Extended menu ...
Syngress, 2002
7
Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent
For geometrically increasing intervals, retry intervals are computed from the rule's parameters until one that is greater than the previous interval is found. Consider the rule in the default configuration: * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,lh,1.5; F,4d, 8h; For the ...
Philip Hazel, 2001
8
PCI System Architecture
As stated at the beginning of this section, the earlier spec recommended that the host/PCI bridge implement a Retry counter. The counter is set to initial count whenever the bridge successfully transfers data during a transaction. Each time that ...
Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, 1999
9
Sip: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol
The norefsub option tag indicates that a UA supports this mechanism. 6.1.22 Retry-After The Retry-After header field is used to indicate when a resource or service may be available again. In 503 Service Unavailable responses, it indicates ...
Alan B. Johnston, 2009
10
Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide
If the network con— nection is temporarily interrupted, for example, the initiator will attempt to resend each unacknowledged message up to the configured retry limit. This includes retry— ing attempts to create the reliable session, during the ...
Michele Leroux Bustamante, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RETRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term retry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Senior Manhattan prosecutor chosen to retry man accused of killing …
NEW YORK — A senior Manhattan prosecutor has been chosen to retry the man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979. The New York Times reports ... «New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV, Jun 15»
2
Prosecutor Won't Retry Man Granted New Trial in Brooklyn Double …
The Brooklyn district attorney will not retry or appeal the case of a man who was granted a new trial this week in a double murder for which he has served 27 ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
3
Manhattan District Attorney Says He Will Retry Etan Patz Murder …
Said Fishbein to NBC News on Monday: "I have not received any official notification, but if the D.A.'s office elects to retry the case, I assure you we will be ready." «People Magazine, May 15»
4
Manhattan Prosecutor Intends to Retry 1979 Missing-Boy Case
(NEW YORK) — A prosecutor says in a television interview he intends to ask for a retrial in the case of a New Jersey man who confessed to choking a 6-year-old ... «TIME, May 15»
5
Man to be retried on negligent homicide charge in crash
DOVER — Prosecutors have decided to retry Ryan Marchant on a negligent homicide charge for allegedly causing the death of a retired New Hampshire judge ... «Seacoastonline.com, Apr 15»
6
Court rejects bid to retry former Arizona death row inmate
Court rejects bid to retry former Arizona death row inmate. Posted: Mar 17, 2015 1:36 PM PDT. Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:36 PM EDT. Updated: Mar 17, 2015 ... «FOX 10 News Phoenix, Mar 15»
7
Attorney: Prosecutors 'act in bad faith' by not deciding to retry man …
Attorneys for Leon Ford have requested a fairness proceeding to determine if prosecutors have “acted in bad faith” by not yet deciding if they will retry him on ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Dec 14»
8
DA to decide whether to retry North Sacramento murder case
Sacramento prosecutors are facing a decision on whether to retry a man for murder in a shooting death investigators believe resulted from a disputed $40 hair ... «Sacramento Bee, Dec 14»
9
Go 'Jungle All the Way' with Rovio's first content update to the …
Rovio has just released the first content update to Retry, the retro-style die-and-retry flying game launched in October by the Angry Birds creator as the first title ... «AppAdvice, Dec 14»
10
Surjit Singh Chhokar: Prosecutors granted permission to retry man …
THREE high court judges have granted prosecutors permission to retry one man accused of murdering the Lanarkshire waiter Surjit Singh Chhokar in 1998. «Scottish Daily Record, Nov 14»

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