approval If you say that someone is a trier, you approve of them because they try very hard at things that they do, although they are not often successful. He may not always achieve greatness but at least he's a trier. A city of southwest Germany on the Moselle River near the Luxembourg border. Settled by the Treveri, an eastern Gaulish people, it was an important commercial center under the Romans and later as part of the Holy Roman Empire. The city was under French control from 1797 until 1815. Population: 94,190. someone who always makes a great effort, even if they do not often succeed
One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard