{
  "id": "try.effort",
  "term": "try",
  "sense": "effort",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "try",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to act with work so that a possible result may happen",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "act.deed",
      "work.effort",
      "possible.potential",
      "outcome.result",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "results.outcome"
    ],
    "interaction": "The act combined with effort explores a possible result, creating an intentional attempt that may lead to an event.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intentional attempt",
      "exploration of possibility",
      "causal link between effort and outcome"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Perseverance attempts to drill into Martian rock despite power and torque limitations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Iceland’s central bank raised interest rates to 18% in an effort to stabilize the krona during the financial crisis.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "E. coli bacteria in a glucose-poor medium activate alternative metabolic pathways to survive.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "act.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "possible.potential",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertising.commercial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "tried",
    "tries",
    "try",
    "trying"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts happen.event-occurrence and results.outcome to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-try.effort"
}