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Experience - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Experience : (noun)
1: the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from
direct participation in events or activities; "a man of
experience"; "experience is the best teacher" [ant: inexperience]
2: the content of direct observation or participation in an
event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the
experience vividly"
3: an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that
painful experience certainly got our attention"
(verb)
1: go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he
saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: undergo, see, go
through]
2: 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" [syn: know, live]
3: 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" [syn: receive, have, get, undergo]
4: undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He
felt regret" [syn: feel]
5: undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [syn: have]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Experience : \Ex*pe"ri*ence\, n. [F. exp['e]rience, L.
experientia, tr. experiens, ?entis, p. pr. of experiri,
expertus, to try; ex out _ the root of pertus experienced.
See Peril, and cf. Expert.]
1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.]
She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts.
--Spenser.
2. 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. ``Guided by other's experiences.'' --Shak.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and
that is the lamp of experience. --P. Henry
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a
ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
--Coleridge.
When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon
by experience how slenderly guarded against danger
the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.
--Holland.
Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon
his preaching, had no experience of it. --Sharp.
3. 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. --Locke.
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. --Sir
J. Herschel.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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