Experience vs. Experiment

Experiencenoun

Event(s) of which one is cognizant.

Experiencenoun

(countable) An activity one has performed.

Experiencenoun

(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

Experiencenoun

(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.

Experienceverb

(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.

Experiencenoun

Trial, as a test or experiment.

Experiencenoun

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.

Experiencenoun

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.

Experienceverb

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.

Experienceverb

To exercise; to train by practice.

Experiencenoun

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;

Experiencenoun

the content of direct observation or participation in an event;

Experiencenoun

an event as apprehended;

Experienceverb

go or live through;

Experienceverb

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;

Experienceverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

Experienceverb

undergo an emotional sensation;

Experienceverb

undergo;

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.

Experimentnoun

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.

Experimentnoun

(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.

Experimentverb

(intransitive) To conduct an experiment.

Experimentverb

To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.

Experimentverb

To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

Experimentnoun

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.

Experimentnoun

Experience.

Experimentverb

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.

Experimentverb

To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.

Experimentnoun

the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

Experimentnoun

the testing of an idea;

Experimentnoun

a venture at something new or different;

Experimentverb

to conduct a test or investigation;

Experimentverb

try something new, as in order to gain experience;

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.