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FIELD TRIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("field trial" is a kind of...):
run; test; trial (the act of testing something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used
Synonyms:
field test; field trial
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("field trial" is a kind of...):
test; trial; trial run; tryout (trying something to find out about it)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("field trial" is a kind of...):
competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
