Touchdown vs. Try — What's the Difference?

A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone.

Make an attempt or effort to do something

Abbr. TD(Football) An act of carrying, receiving, or gaining possession of the ball across the opponent's goal line for a score of six points.

Subject (someone) to trial

The contact, or moment of contact, of a landing aircraft or spacecraft with the landing surface.

Smooth (roughly planed wood) with a plane to give an accurately flat surface.

A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

Extract (oil or fat) by heating

(rugby) A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.

An effort to accomplish something; an attempt

(rugby) A try scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal.

An act of touching the ball down behind the opposing goal line, scoring points and entitling the scoring side to a kick at goal.

(aviation) The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.

To make an effort to do or accomplish (something); attempt

The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.

To taste, sample, or otherwise test in order to determine strength, effect, worth, or desirability

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal; also the score (6 points) resulting from such a play.

To make an effort to open (a closed door or window).

A score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line

To conduct the trial of (a legal claim)

A landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes

To put (an accused person) on trial.

To subject to great strain or hardship; tax

To melt (lard, for example) to separate out impurities; render.

To make an effort; strive

An attempt; an effort.

(Sports) In rugby, an act of advancing the ball past the opponent's goal line and grounding it there for a score of three points.

To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

(obsolete) To divide; to separate.

To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.

(one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.

(nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil

To extract wax from a honeycomb

To test, to work out.

To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.

To put to test.

(specifically) To test someone's patience.

To receive an imminent attack; to take.

To taste, sample, etc.

To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

(with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).

(legal) To put on trial.

To experiment, to strive.

To have or gain knowledge of by experience.

To work on something with one's best effort and focus.

(obsolete) To do; to fare.

To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

To attempt to conceive a child.

(nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.

To strain; to subject to excessive tests.

To want

An attempt.

An act of tasting or sampling.

(rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.

A screen, or sieve, for grain.

(American football) A field goal or extra point

(chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.

(obsolete) Fine, excellent.

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; - frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.

To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.

To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.

To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.

To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.

To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.

To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.

To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.

To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.

To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.

To do; to fare; as, how do you try!

A screen, or sieve, for grain.

Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; - so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).

Refined; select; excellent; choice.

Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;

Make an effort or attempt;

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of;

Take a sample of;

Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process;

Give pain or trouble to;

Test the limits of;

Melt (fat, lard, etc.) in order to separate out impurities;

Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice;