Experience vs. Experiment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Experience and Experiment
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Experience
Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awareness on the part of the person having the experience, although they need not be.
Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.
Experience
The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind
A child's first experience of snow.
Experiment
A test under controlled conditions that is made to demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
Experience
Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill
A lesson taught by experience.
A carpenter with experience in roof repair.
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Experiment
The process of conducting such a test; experimentation.
Experience
The knowledge or skill so derived.
Experiment
An innovative act or procedure
"Democracy is only an experiment in government" (William Ralph Inge).
Experience
An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
Experiment
The result of experimentation
"We are not [nature's] only experiment" (R. Buckminster Fuller).
Experience
The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
Experiment
To conduct an experiment.
Experience
To participate in personally; undergo
Experience a great adventure.
Experienced loneliness.
Experiment
To try something new, especially in order to gain experience
Experiment with new methods of teaching.
Experience
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
It was an experience he would not soon forget.
Experiment
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
Conduct an experiment
Carry out some experiments
Perform a scientific experiment
Experience
(countable) An activity one has performed.
Experiment
(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
Experience
(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
Experiment
(intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
We're going to experiment on rats.
Experience
(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
Experiment
To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
Experience
Trial; a test or experiment.
Experiment
To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
Experience
(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
Experiment
A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something uncertain; esp., one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some hypothesis, theory, or known truth; practical test; proof.
A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
Experience
Trial, as a test or experiment.
She caused him to make experienceUpon wild beasts.
Experiment
Experience.
Adam, by sad experiment I knowHow little weight my words with thee can find.
Experience
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.
Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
Experiment
To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; - often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
Experience
An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.
Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.
Experiment
To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.
Experience
To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.
The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.
Experiment
The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
Experience
To exercise; to train by practice.
The youthful sailors thus with early careTheir arms experience, and for sea prepare.
Experiment
The testing of an idea;
It was an experiment in living
Not all experimentation is done in laboratories
Experience
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;
A man of experience
Experience is the best teacher
Experiment
A venture at something new or different;
As an experiment he decided to grow a beard
Experience
The content of direct observation or participation in an event;
He had a religious experience
He recalled the experience vividly
Experiment
To conduct a test or investigation;
We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease
Experience
An event as apprehended;
A surprising experience
That painful experience certainly got our attention
Experiment
Try something new, as in order to gain experience;
Students experiment sexually
The composer experimented with a new style
Experience
Go or live through;
We had many trials to go through
He saw action in Viet Nam
Experience
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;
I know the feeling!
Have you ever known hunger?
I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
I lived through two divorces
Experience
Of mental or physical states or experiences;
Get an idea
Experience vertigo
Get nauseous
Undergo a strange sensation
The chemical undergoes a sudden change
The fluid undergoes shear
Receive injuries
Have a feeling
Experience
Undergo an emotional sensation;
She felt resentful
He felt regret
Experience
Undergo;
The stocks had a fast run-up
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