retry
- noun
- /ˈriːtraɪ/
- It takes a good 20 minutes to get to these bosses, and on a retry, these 20 minutes are dull and lack any real challenge.
And inside systems there is all sorts of retries and timeouts and fall backs.
- And inside systems there is all sorts of retries and timeouts and fall backs.
Examples
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One of the best things they implemented, in my opinion, was the ability to replay missions, and rather than driving all the way back to the briefing again after you fail a mission, all you have to do is bring up your phone and click on retry.
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Please choose what to do: Retry, Abort, Ignore, Ignore All.
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Commit to faster retry rates in failing school fix efforts, one or two years, not five.
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After the first failure, he decided to make a retry at the exam next month.
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The team's retry after losing the first match proved successful as they won the championship.
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She suggested a quick retry of the experiment to see if the results would be different.
Synonyms
An opportunity to try again after making a mistake
A time when something is done again to fix a mistake or make it better
Antonyms
How Persistent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Retry is formed from re- 'again' and try 'an attempt', so it simply means 'another try'. That's why a game or test gives you a retry after you fail.