<B>experience, </B>noun, verb, <B>-enced,</B> <B>-encing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>what happens to a person; what is seen, done, felt, or lived through. <BR> <I>Ex. Battle is a shattering experience to many men. We had several pleasant experiences on our trip.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>all of the actions, events, or states which make up the life of a person, a community, a race, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Nothing in human experience has prepared man for space travel.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>knowledge or skill gained by doing, observing, or living through things. <BR> <I>Ex. Have you had any experience in this kind of work? He has had little business experience.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the act or process of observing, doing, or living through things. <BR> <I>Ex. People learn by experience. Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes (Oscar Wilde).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to have happen to one; meet with; feel; live through. <BR> <I>Ex. In life you experience pain, joy, and sorrow.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to learn by experience; find. <BR> <I>Ex. I have experienced that a landscape and the sky unfold the deepest beauty (Hawthorne).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>experience religion.</B> </I>See under <B>religion.</B> noun <B>experiencer.</B> </DL>
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<B>experienced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having had experience; taught by experience. <BR> <I>Ex. The job calls for a man experienced in driving a truck.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>skillful or wise because of experience. <BR> <I>Ex. an experienced teacher, an experienced nurse.</I> (SYN) expert, practiced. </DL>
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<B>experienceless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without experience. </DL>
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<B>experience meeting,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a meeting, as of members of a church, for the telling of religious experiences. </DL>
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<B>experience table,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a record of the length of life among people having life insurance, used by actuaries to evaluate risks, premiums, etc. </DL>
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<B>experient, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an experienced person. <BR> <I>Ex. She assumes the role of experient and sets out to describe her experiences (Fay Lezard).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> experienced. </DL>
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<B>experiential, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with experience. <DD><B> 2. </B>based on or coming from experience. (SYN) empirical. adv. <B>experientially.</B> </DL>
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<B>experientialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the theory or doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience. </DL>
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<B>experientialist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who believes in or supports the theory of experientialism. </DL>
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<B>experiment, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to try in order to find out; make trials or tests. <BR> <I>Ex. A baby experiments with his hands. The painter is experimenting with different paints to get the color he wants.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a test or trial to find out something. <BR> <I>Ex. a cooking experiment.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a conducting of such tests or trials. <BR> <I>Ex. Scientists test out theories by experiment.</I> (SYN) experimentation. <DD><B> 3. </B>an apparatus or instrument used in an experiment. <BR> <I>Ex. On Apollo 11 was a package of three experiments--a passive seismometer, laser reflector, and solar wind sensor (Science Journal).</I> noun <B>experimenter.</B> </DL>
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<B>experimental, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>based on experiments. <BR> <I>Ex. Chemistry is an experimental science.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>used for experiments. <BR> <I>Ex. A new variety of wheat was developed at the experimental farm.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>for testing or trying out. <BR> <I>Ex. a young bird's experimental attempts to fly. This trip in the model of the new car will be only experimental. Youth is wholly experimental (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>based on experience, not on theory or authority. <BR> <I>Ex. experimental knowledge.</I> (SYN) empirical. </DL>
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<B>experimentalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine or practice, especially in the fine arts, of experimenting freely with new techniques, forms, media, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. His literary experimentalism, his frank use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, sits a little oddly with his north-country material (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>experimentalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes experiments. <BR> <I>Ex. Abstract examples of statement of form for its own sake without further "meaning" in a literary or representational sense are shown by such fertile experimentalists as Boris Margo (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<B>experimentally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>by making experiments. <DD><B> 2. </B>as an experiment. </DL>
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<B>experimentation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of experimenting. <BR> <I>Ex. A cure for the disease was found by experimentation on animals.</I> </DL>
<B>experimentist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a systematic experimenter. </DL>
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<B>experimentize, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to try experiments. </DL>
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<B>experiment station,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place where experiments in a particular line of research or activity, such as agriculture, are systematically carried on. </DL>
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<B>expert, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who has much skill or who knows a great deal about some special thing; authority; specialist. <BR> <I>Ex. She is an expert at fancy skating.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having much skill; knowing a great deal about some special thing. <BR> <I>Ex. an expert painter. He is an expert chemist.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>requiring or showing special skill. <BR> <I>Ex. expert workmanship, expert testimony.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Especially U.S. Informal.) to study or examine as an expert. <BR> <I>Ex. to expert the accounts of a company.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Especially U.S. Informal.) to be or act as an expert. <BR> <I>Ex. The millionaire ... devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge (Time).</I> adv. <B>expertly.</B> noun <B>expertness.</B> </DL>
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<B>expertise, </B>noun, verb, <B>-ised,</B> <B>-ising.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>expert opinion or knowledge, often expressed on some matter submitted to consideration by experts. <BR> <I>Ex. connoisseurs full of mumbo-jumbo and expertise.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the quality or state of being an expert; skill or expertness in a particular study or sport. <BR> <I>Ex. His expertise was not equal to the task.</I> <DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> <B>=expertize.</B> </DL>
<B>expertize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to give opinions as or in the manner of an expert. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to bring expertise to bear on. <BR> <I>Ex. Yet few Presidents have not used their personal influence and the publicity processes of government, as these were enlarged, perfected, and expertized (Arthur Krock).</I> </DL>
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<B>expertizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who expertizes. </DL>
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<B>experto credite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) believe the expert; trust him who knows by experience. </DL>
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<B>expertsystem,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a computer program that incorporates the knowledge of an expert in an area such as medicine or finance. <BR> <I>Ex. Among the best-known expert systems are programs that contain medical information that can help doctors diagnose illnesses (G. Kolata).</I> </DL>
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<B>expiable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be expiated. <BR> <I>Ex. an expiable sin.</I> </DL>
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<B>expiate, </B>verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to pay the penalty for (a wrong, sin, or crime); atone for. <BR> <I>Ex. The thief expiated his theft by giving back twice as much as he stole.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make amends; atone. <BR> <I>Ex. His success in sieges did not expiate ... for the loss in men (Robert Southey).</I> </DL>
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<B>expiation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a making amends for a sin, wrong, or crime; atonement. <BR> <I>Ex. He made a public apology in expiation of his error.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the means of atonement; amends. <BR> <I>Ex. His apology was considered a suitable expiation.</I> </DL>
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<B>expiational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or for the purpose of expiation. </DL>
<A NAME="expiative">
<B>expiative, </B>adjective. =expiatory.</DL>
<A NAME="expiator">
<B>expiator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who expiates. </DL>
<B>expiatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> intended or serving to expiate; expiating; atoning. </DL>
<A NAME="expirate">
<B>expirate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Phonetics.) that results from or is accompanied by exhaling. </DL>
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<B>expiration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a coming to an end; termination. <BR> <I>Ex. We shall move at the expiration of our lease.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a breathing out; exhalation. <BR> <I>Ex. The expiration of used air from the lungs is part of breathing.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the sound made in breathing out. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) the action of breathing one's last; death. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a giving off as if by breathing; evaporation. </DL>
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<B>expirator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for forcing out air, gas, etc. </DL>