tryout

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: try=out

CIDE DICTIONARY

tryout, n. 

•  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.]
•  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]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

tryout

Experiment

N experiment, essay, analysis, screen, trial, tentative method, t=atonnement, verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration), criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test, crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix, assay, ordeal, ring, litmus paper, curcuma paper, turmeric paper, test tube, analytical instruments, empiricism, rule of thumb, feeler, trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon, pilot engine, scout, straw to show the wind, speculation, random shot, leap in the dark, analyzer, analyst, assayist, adventurer, experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist, scientist, engineer, technician, subject, experimentee, guinea pig, experimental animal, protocol, experimental method, blind experiment, double-blind experiment, controlled experiment, poll, survey, opinion poll, epidemiological survey, retrospective analysis, retrospective survey, prospective survey, prospective analysis, statistical analysis, literature search, library research, tryout, audition, discovery, measurement, evidence, deduction, induction, abduction, experimental, empirical, probative, probatory, probationary, provisional, analytic, docimastic, tentative, unverified, unproven, speculative, untested, on trial, under examination, on probation, under probation, on one's trial, on approval, check it out, give it a try, see how it goes, Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.