Experience
[ɪk'spɪərɪəns;ek-] or [ɪk'spɪrɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; 'a man of experience'; 'experience is the best teacher'.
(noun.) the content of direct observation or participation in an event; 'he had a religious experience'; 'he recalled the experience vividly'.
(noun.) an event as apprehended; 'a surprising experience'; 'that painful experience certainly got our attention'.
(verb.) go through (mental or physical states or experiences); 'get an idea'; 'experience vertigo'; 'get nauseous'; 'receive injuries'; 'have a feeling'.
(verb.) go or live through; 'We had many trials to go through'; 'he saw action in Viet Nam'.
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Definition
(n.) Trial, as a test or experiment.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Trial, proof, test, practice.[2]. Knowledge (gained from trial or practice), experimental knowledge, practical wisdom.
v. a. Try, feel, undergo, endure, put to the proof (of one's own sensations), prove by trial, have practical acquaintance with.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Experiment, trial, test, proof, habit, knowledge
ANT:[See TRIAL]
SYN:Try, feel, undergo, encounter, endure
ANT:Evade, escape, miss, lose
Editor: Mervin
Definition
n. thorough trial of: practical acquaintance with any matter gained by trial: repeated trial: long and varied observation personal or general: wisdom derived from the changes and trials of life.—v.t. to make trial of or practical acquaintance with: to prove or know by use: to suffer undergo.—p.adj. Expē′rienced taught by experience: skilful: wise.—adjs. Expē′rienceless having no experience; Experien′tial pertaining to or derived from experience.—ns. Experien′tialism; Experien′tialist.—Experience meeting a religious meeting where those present relate their religious experiences.
Edited by Hilda
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Examples
- I am nearly seventy, Mr. Lydgate, and I go upon experience. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It seemed almost axiomatic that for true knowledge we must have recourse to concepts coming from a reason above experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Besides, I have late experience, that errant thieves are not the worst men in the world to have to deal with. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I reassured him on this point, and, as well as I could, I showed him the mere outline of my experience. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The real reason lay in the reluctance which Mr. Holmes has shown to the continued publication of his experiences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As experiences they have both an artistic and an esthetic quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One of these workers, relating the strenuous experiences of these few years, says: It was hard work and long hours, but still there were some things that made life pleasant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But since I have had experiences which demonstrate that drunkenness is the same in my country. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the autumn, new trials and experiences came to Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The things which are socially most fundamental, that is, which have to do with the experiences in which the widest groups share, are the essentials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The crusaders beleaguered Prague, but failed to take it, and they experienced a series of reverses that ended in their retreat from Bohemia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He inhaled it, and experienced a sense of exhilaration. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Under date of February 12, he writes: This day has been memorable in the annals of Valdivia for the most severe earthquake experienced by the oldes t inhabitant. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The pleasure was mutual; for who could ever gaze on Mr. Pickwick's beaming face without experiencing the sensation? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Such reflection upon experience gives rise to a distinction of what we experience (the experienced) and the experiencing--the how. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I was experiencing the masculine difficulty of making love very long standing up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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