"try on" meaning in All languages combined

See try on on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-try on.ogg [Australia] Forms: tries on [present, singular, third-person], trying on [participle, present], tried on [participle, past], tried on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} try on (third-person singular simple present tries on, present participle trying on, simple past and past participle tried on)
  1. (transitive) To test the look or fit of (a garment) by wearing it. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (to test the look of): emprovar-se (Catalan), 試穿 (Chinese Mandarin), 试穿 (shìchuān) (Chinese Mandarin), prøve på (Danish), passen (Dutch), sovittaa (Finnish), koettaa (Finnish), kokeilla (Finnish), essayer (French), anprobieren (German), felpróbál (Hungarian), máta (Icelandic), provare (Italian), misurare (Italian), 試着する (shichaku suru) (alt: しちゃくする) (Japanese), prøve på (Norwegian Bokmål), przymierzać [imperfective] (Polish), przymierzyć [perfective] (Polish), provar (Portuguese), примеря́ть (primerjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), приме́рить (priméritʹ) [perfective] (Russian), probar (Spanish), ཚོད་ལྟ་བྱེད (tshod lta byed) (Tibetan), приміря́ти (prymirjáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), примі́ряти (prymírjaty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), примі́рювати (prymírjuvaty) [imperfective, rare] (Ukrainian), примі́рити (prymíryty) [perfective, rare] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-try_on-en-verb--y6mjyZ1 Disambiguation of Clothing: 98 2 Disambiguation of 'to test the look of': 100 0
  2. (transitive, slang) To attempt; to undertake. Tags: slang, transitive Derived forms: try it on, try-on [noun]
    Sense id: en-try_on-en-verb-F-sK-wzX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (on), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (on): 19 81 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 90

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.