Experiment
[ɪk'sperɪm(ə)nt;ek-] or [ɪk'sperɪmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation.
(noun.) a venture at something new or different; 'as an experiment he decided to grow a beard'.
(noun.) the testing of an idea; 'it was an experiment in living'; 'not all experimentation is done in laboratories'.
(verb.) to conduct a test or investigation; 'We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease'.
(verb.) try something new, as in order to gain experience; 'Students experiment sexually'; 'The composer experimented with a new style'.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under 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 suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
(n.) Experience.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
黛西手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Trial, test, examination, assay, proof, touchstone, ordeal.
v. n. Make experiment, make trial.
整理:玛米
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Trial, illustration, test, exemplification
ANT:Conjecture, assumption, hypothesis
校對:齐利格
解釋/意思:
n. a trial: something done to prove some theory or to discover something unknown.—v.i. to make an experiment or trial: to search by trial.—adj. Experiment′al founded or known by experiment: taught by experience: tentative.—v.i. Experiment′alise.—ns. Experiment′alist Exper′imentist one who makes experiments.—adv. Experiment′ally.—n. Experimentā′tion.—adj. Experiment′ative.
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例句/造句/用法:
- All Russia now is a huge experiment in that dictatorship (August, 1920). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Well, you know, Standish, every dose you take is an experiment-an experiment, you know, said Mr. Brooke, nodding towards the lawyer. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We have turned our attention to that experiment, on the suggestion of my family, and we find it fallacious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I knew what the result of such an experiment would be. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nichols was also with us for a short time conducting a special series of experiments. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- There is nothing of the helter-skelter, slap-dash style in Edison's experiments. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Edison himself began at that point, and his note-books show that he made various experiments with this type of lamp at a very early stage. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Phelps, another investigator, who had been experimenting along the same lines and had taken out several patents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Experimenting on the machine swallowed a great deal of capital, and the stockholders of the company he had formed became impatient. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The question of stacking ensilage is sometimes raised, being urged upon our people by the practice of our English friends, who are experimenting quite largely in this direction. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It contained innumerable devices that he had worked out during the years he had been experimenting at his factory. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Again, in experimenting on the telephone, I had to improve the transmitter so I could hear it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- John Stevens, the most celebrated boat builder and engineer of his day, was actively experimenting in America in the same line. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In speaking of Edison's method of experimenting, another of his laboratory staff says: He is never hindered by theory, but resorts to actual experiment for proof. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He made designs for firearms and experimented with guns to learn the carrying distance of various bores and balls. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They had been far more thorough and more resourceful than those Europeans who had for some time experimented with aviation. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- For sixteen years Palissy experimented. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He took up the question, experimented with fire-damp, and found that it was in reality light carburetted hydrogen. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Sebright expressly experimented with this object and failed. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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