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field trial
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field trial
n.
1. A test for young, untried hunting dogs to determine their competence in pointing and retrieving. Often used in the plural.
2. A trial of a new product in actual situations of use.
field trial
n
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) Hunting a test of or contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency and standard of training in retrieving or pointing
2. (often plural) a test to display performance, efficiency, or durability, as of a vehicle or invention
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Noun1.field trial - a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used
field test
test, trial run, tryout, trial - trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"
2.field trial - a contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving
contest, competition - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
3.field trial - a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving
trial, run, test - the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"
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This fall, the American Psychiatric Association will begin field trials of the diagnostic criteria and dimensional assessments it plans to include in the next edition of the DSM.
APA: DSM-V field trials set to begin soon by Schneider, Mary Ellen / Clinical Psychiatry News
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In 1931 The Labrador Retriever Club was founded and on the 21st December 1931 the club held a field trials event for the breed on Robert Goelets Glenmere Court Estate in Chester, New York.
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