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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
experiment
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold experiment
▪ Making a film from the book was a bold experiment, and it worked.
carry out an experiment
▪ Many schools need better facilities for carrying out scientific experiments.
carry out an experiment
▪ Many schools need better facilities for carrying out scientific experiments.
conduct a test/experiment
▪ Investigators will be conducting tests to determine how the man died.
controlled experiment
▪ a controlled experiment to determine the effects of light on plant growth
devise an experiment/test
▪ He devised a series of experiments to test his theory.
experiment with drugs (=try taking drugs)
▪ She admitted that she had experimented with drugs.
laboratory tests/experiments/studies
perform an experiment/study etc
▪ Part of the Chemistry exam involves performing an experiment.
table-top experiment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ However, ten years later one of Marconi's earliest experiments took place there.
▪ In early experiments I actually used Guinness in the dough but it is too costly.
▪ The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal.
▪ Early subjects of time study were the locomotive tires Taylor had used in his earliest metal-cutting experiments.
▪ The earlier experiments show that the top and bottom halves are not equally sensitive.
▪ An early experiment in 1963 using explosives had not been a success, and in 1981 the geophysicists turned to Vibroseis.
▪ While the idea of such interactions could be inferred from earlier experiments, here the result was much more dramatic and clear-cut.
recent
▪ A recent beautiful experiment by Aspect and his collaborators adds convincing confirmation of quantum mechanics rather than local reality.
▪ The inference had been widely accepted, until a more recent experiment.
▪ But recent experiments have called that finding, and much else, into question.
▪ However, recent basin development experiments have suggested that observed stratigraphic effects could be a normal consequence of basin development.
▪ Whereas swallowed saliva contains bicarbonate, recent experiments have also demonstrated alkali secretion from the mammalian oesophagus.
scientific
▪ Chewing gives psychological satisfaction, and even in scientific experiments the chewing of gum has been found to help reduce tension.
▪ Explain to the class that they are going to conduct a scientific experiment using only a strip of paper.
▪ One day, I promise myself, I will make a scientific experiment.
▪ When Challenger called by this morning, he described a scientific experiment to me of a very similar sort.
▪ This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people.
▪ With his men properly nourished, Cook had all hands available to carry out scientific experiments and explorations.
▪ Additionally, few primary schools have the equipment or facilities to carry out scientific experiments as the syllabus suggests.
▪ The three Skylab crews spent a combined time of over 3000 hours conducting scientific experiments in Earth orbit.
simple
▪ We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
▪ Putting a chameleon on a mirror seemed a simple enough experiment that I thought that even a writer could perform it.
▪ Experiments with water Older preschoolers will enjoy these simple experiments, which will need your supervision and explanation.
▪ This simple experiment was not undoing the clock; it was undoing civilization.
▪ They did the simple experiment and of course found that he was not!
▪ What initially sounded like a simple experiment in fact required a great deal of effort.
▪ The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
▪ Teachers are shown how to carry out many simple experiments.
■ NOUN
laboratory
▪ The processes themselves A major complication, however, is that the environment can rarely be treated as in a laboratory experiment.
▪ Conventional psychology's principal methodological demand is for the kind of objectivity promised by the laboratory experiment.
▪ We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments.
▪ This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments.
▪ The laboratory experiment is an obvious case of control, since a complete situation is created by and for the observer.
▪ It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments.
▪ Studies of turbulent flows centre on laboratory experiments.
▪ The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
■ VERB
begin
▪ He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture.
▪ But Robichaux is ready to begin the experiments with local food sources.
▪ And he began experiments in which half the belts conformed to existing practice, while half were made three times heavier.
▪ The salt crystals spontaneously began to change to fern shapes whenever the experiment began.
▪ More recently, the college has begun to experiment with products whose design and manufacture the students carry out over several semesters.
▪ It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper.
▪ I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment.
carry
▪ We could, I suppose, have carried out such an experiment without the drastic consequences the Lieutenant has suggested.
▪ These include the deployment and retrieval of a NASA-owned spacecraft called Spartan, which carries a half-dozen experiments.
▪ The data will be analysed and a decision made as to whether to carry out a similar experiment during the busy summer months.
▪ With his men properly nourished, Cook had all hands available to carry out scientific experiments and explorations.
▪ Leading voice: Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting.
▪ The alchemist would burn incense and douse himself in specially prepared perfumes before carrying out his experiments.
▪ One approach is to carry out experiments with a digitizing table in order to determine empirically an appropriate distribution for digitizing errors.
▪ There is a chance to carry out your own experiments, a steam railway, and a special laboratory for young people.
conduct
▪ Students worked from textbooks which explain how to conduct the experiment and the sorts of results one would expect to get.
▪ Explain to the class that they are going to conduct a scientific experiment using only a strip of paper.
▪ But she showed no particular desire to conduct the experiments herself.
▪ They have been conducting a series of experiments and observations on the topic of nutrition.
▪ The three Skylab crews spent a combined time of over 3000 hours conducting scientific experiments in Earth orbit.
▪ They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body.
▪ The aim of the present research is to develop this framework by deriving testable propositions and conducting appropriate experiments.
▪ In my opinion, Don Quixote was conducting an experiment.
demonstrate
▪ This has been demonstrated by experiments with captive starlings, using the technique of displacing the sun's image with mirrors.
▪ The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
describe
▪ I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.
▪ He was worried that he would have to get up and describe an experiment that no one had reproduced.
▪ In the next chapter, we describe a series of experiments designed to explore the extent of this problem.
▪ When Challenger called by this morning, he described a scientific experiment to me of a very similar sort.
▪ So now we should describe the actual experiments in more detail.
▪ Perhaps it was a mistake to describe both sets of experiments in one single account.
▪ Creating a living wonder at the scale of Bio2 could only be described as an experiment in sustained chaos.
design
▪ The craft of glass blowing is vital to science, especially when researchers design experiments for which no containers are available.
▪ We design and perform an experiment, or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.
▪ We therefore set out to design an experiment with a younger, more appropriately matched control population.
▪ And biologists at universities are wary of spending years designing an experiment that may be postponed or lost in space.
▪ You will be asked to design experiments and be given other problems to solve.
▪ The major concern in designing an experiment to meet the criteria given above was to avoid obtaining ceiling effects.
▪ It designs its own experiments to confirm what mere observation might suggest.
perform
▪ Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material.
▪ In other words, Heisenberg pointed out that bodies, not detached minds, perform experiments.
▪ Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment.
▪ We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness.
▪ We design and perform an experiment, or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.
▪ I merely want you to perform an experiment.
▪ She performs unnatural experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps.
▪ Contrary to the popular myth, Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
repeat
▪ A researcher reports a particular result, and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs.
▪ That evening I repeat the experiment with a little lamb.
▪ She repeated the experiment several times.
▪ We repeat the experiment over and over.
▪ We repeated the experiments with a precursor for protein and found that an increase in protein synthesis occurred also.
▪ Still, sooner or later, some one will have to repeat the experiment.
▪ But intra-regional conflict destroyed this initiative and made Moscow reluctant to repeat this kind of experiment.
▪ I repeated the experiment with atoms, and then with whole molecules.
set
▪ The game begins with an animated sequence showing the Baron stomping around his laboratory, setting up the experiment.
▪ And they don't often have time to set up experiments.
▪ These factors will be taken one at a time, and the scientist will set up experiments to test them.
▪ If this sounds cynical, it is not difficult to set up a simple experiment.
▪ It is both wasteful and irresponsible to set experiments in motion and omit to record and analyse what happens.
▪ This is relevant in possibly saving experimenters some time in setting up experiments.
▪ All seemed set for an experiment in unity.
▪ He bought some palladium and set up an experiment.
show
▪ How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan's with mica.
▪ This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people.
▪ This is shown by experiments with humanity's nearest living relative, the chimpanzee.
▪ The same result showed up in rural experiments.
test
▪ The hypothesis can therefore be tested by clock-shifting experiments.
▪ I have tested this by experiment.
try
▪ Second, we can try modern experiments.
▪ Doubters should try their own experiment.
▪ If you are really desperate you can use ordinary brown gummed paper tape as hinges but do try and experiment first.
▪ Whenever you get stuck feeling you have no time, try that little thought experiment.
▪ How well do you know your own Faces? Try this experiment.
▪ Here were two great people who have both tried the experiment of Communism in the hope of modernization.
▪ If you try this linguistic experiment some groups object, you try out that, some other groups object.
▪ Some, like Faraday, were highly sceptical but prepared to try an experiment or two.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
run a check/test/experiment etc
▪ I also ran a check on my own records, I should add.
▪ It had been switched off after two senior doctors had twice run tests on the patient before declaring him dead.
▪ There is no incentive to run tests and analyse the results.
▪ They ran tests and took x-rays, then I was called in to hear the results.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In one experiment, the men were not allowed to sleep and then were tested on how well they were able to concentrate.
▪ The elderly people were taught meditation in the 12-week experiment.
▪ The Institute plans to conduct no further experiments on monkeys.
▪ They are doing experiments to learn more about the affects of alcohol on the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All three of the experiments you did are related to the center of gravity in your body.
▪ Faced with such a question the theorist has to repair to a mental laboratory where he conducts thought experiments.
▪ In the classical conditioning experiment, the two stimuli were presented simultaneously.
▪ In three other experiments fluid transport in the jejunum was nil.
▪ Laboratory experiments have proven that unfamiliar surroundings and a change in daily schedule can lead to sleep problems.
▪ The experiment has not been done, and it is hard to imagine its getting a grant.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University.
■ NOUN
drug
▪ This must be what people tell themselves when they start experimenting with drugs.
▪ He began experimenting with drugs when he was 13.
▪ He was just seventeen when he began experimenting with drugs, shooting heroin into his arm.
▪ He began experimenting with different drugs and drank excessively.
idea
▪ The Weather Department is always experimenting with new ideas.
▪ Ronald Reagan is the only modern presidential candidate to experiment with that idea, selecting Pennsylvania Sen.
ways
▪ Ideal conditions then saw steady progress and plenty of time to experiment with different ways of getting rid of straw.
▪ He spread the word to his fellow monks, who experimented with other ways to consume the berries.
▪ Take some time to read around the subject of stress, and to experiment with new ways of coping.
■ VERB
try
▪ Record a backing tape with this chord and try experimenting with the mode.
▪ He tried experimenting with various catalysts at these higher temperatures, again without results.
▪ Use styling products that are designed to add volume and try experimenting with heated rollers to add body and waves.
▪ But why not try experimenting with a contrasting thread?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another possibility that I have experimented with once or twice is creating a monogram in flowers.
▪ At fifteen he began to experiment with various water turbines.
▪ Considerable work has also been undertaken to develop new blends using wool and experimenting with new man made fibres and dyestuffs.
▪ He also experimented with photography, and did significant early work with X-rays from 1896, and with radio waves from 1897.
▪ Ronald Reagan is the only modern presidential candidate to experiment with that idea, selecting Pennsylvania Sen.
▪ She had black kinky hair that she experimented with a lot.
▪ She was experimenting with a risotto when Ron Paget appeared at the door.
▪ Want to experiment with digital images?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Experiment

Experiment \Ex*per"i*ment\ ([e^]ks*p[e^]r"[i^]*ment), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Experinenting.] 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.

Experiment

Experiment \Ex*per"i*ment\, v. t. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Herbert.

Experiment

Experiment \Ex*per"i*ment\, n. [L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience.]

  1. 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.

    A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
    --J. Adams.

  2. Experience. [Obs.]

    Adam, by sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find.
    --Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
experiment

mid-14c., "action of observing or testing; an observation, test, or trial;" also "piece of evidence or empirical proof; feat of magic or sorcery," from Old French esperment "practical knowledge, cunning; enchantment, magic spell; trial, proof, example; lesson, sign, indication," from Latin experimentum "a trial, test, proof, experiment," noun of action from experiri "to test, try" (see experience (n.)).

experiment

late 15c., from experiment (n.). Intransitive sense by 1787. Related: Experimented; experimenting.

Wiktionary
experiment

n. 1 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. 2 (context obsolete English) experience, practical familiarity with something. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To conduct an experiment. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

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WordNet
experiment

  1. n. the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation [syn: experimentation]

  2. the testing of an idea; "it was an experiment in living"; "not all experimentation is done in laboratories" [syn: experimentation]

  3. a venture at something new or different; "as an experiment he decided to grow a beard"

  4. v. to conduct a test or investigation; "We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease"

  5. try something new, as in order to gain experience; "Students experiment sexually"; "The composer experimented with a new style" [syn: try out]

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Gazetteer
Experiment, GA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Georgia
Population (2000): 3233
Housing Units (2000): 1259
Land area (2000): 3.040371 sq. miles (7.874524 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.040371 sq. miles (7.874524 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28296
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.274505 N, 84.274758 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Experiment, GA
Experiment
Wikipedia
Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to verify, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results. There also exist natural experimental studies.

A child may carry out basic experiments to understand gravity, while teams of scientists may take years of systematic investigation to advance their understanding of a phenomenon. Experiments and other types of hands-on activities are very important to student learning in the science classroom. Experiments can raise test scores and help a student become more engaged and interested in the material they are learning, especially when used over time. Experiments can vary from personal and informal natural comparisons (e.g. tasting a range of chocolates to find a favorite), to highly controlled (e.g. tests requiring complex apparatus overseen by many scientists that hope to discover information about subatomic particles). Uses of experiments vary considerably between the natural and human sciences.

Experiments typically include controls, which are designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the single independent variable. This increases the reliability of the results, often through a comparison between control measurements and the other measurements. Scientific controls are a part of the scientific method. Ideally, all variables in an experiment are controlled (accounted for by the control measurements) and none are uncontrolled. In such an experiment, if all controls work as expected, it is possible to conclude that the experiment works as intended, and that results are due to the effect of the tested variable.

Experiment (game)

Experiment is a dedicated deck card game for 3-6 players designed by Tim De Rycke and Sander Vernyns.

The players are working in a lab where you are trying to get hold of the right colored fluids to mix them and fulfill the tasks that your professor assigned you. After 11 rounds the points of the accomplished tasks are counted. The one with the most points wins the game.

The game received the award for best prototype at the Games & Toys Awards in 2006. The price includes printing by Cartamundi and distribution by 999 Games. A second edition is distributed by SandTimer

Experiment (locomotive)

Experiment was a steam locomotive designed and built by Richard Roberts in 1833 for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR). The locomotive had vertical cylinders driving via bell cranks.

Experiment (disambiguation)

An experiment is a set of observations performed in the context of solving a particular problem or question.

Experiment may also refer to:

  • Experiment (probability theory), a repeatable process with a fixed set of possible outcomes
  • Experiment, Arkansas
  • Experiment, Georgia, a United States town
  • Experiment (1943 film), a Czech film
  • Experiment (1988 film), a short Soviet film
  • Experiment (game), a dedicated deck card game
  • Experiment (locomotive), an 1833 steam locomotive
  • Experiment, an 1835 railway coach used at the Stockton and Darlington Railway's opening
  • Experiment (ship) - any one of a number of vessels, naval and mercantile
  • Experiment (website)
Experiment (probability theory)

In probability theory, an experiment or trial (see below) is any procedure that can be infinitely repeated and has a well-defined set of possible outcomes, known as the sample space. An experiment is said to be random if it has more than one possible outcome, and deterministic if it has only one. A random experiment that has exactly two ( mutually exclusive) possible outcomes is known as a Bernoulli trial.

When an experiment is conducted, one (and only one) outcome results— although this outcome may be included in any number of events, all of which would be said to have occurred on that trial. After conducting many trials of the same experiment and pooling the results, an experimenter can begin to assess the empirical probabilities of the various outcomes and events that can occur in the experiment and apply the methods of statistical analysis.

Experiment (1988 film)

Eksperiment (, lit. Experiment) is a 1988 Soyuzmultfilm's satirical animated film about the bureaucrats directed by Yefim Gamburg and written by Michail Gurevich and Olgert Libkin. It was created in traditional hand-drawn animation technique.

Experiment (1943 film)

Experiment is a 1943 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič.

Experiment (website)

Experiment, formerly called Microryza, is a US website for crowdfunding science-based research projects. Researchers can post their research projects to solicit pledges. Experiment works on the all-or-nothing funding model. The backers are only charged if the research projects reach their funding target during a set time frame. In February 2014, the site changed its name from Microryza to Experiment.com.

It was founded in 2012 by Denny Luan and Cindy Wu, former University of Washington researchers. The former name Microryza is inspired by Mycorrhizae and symbiotic fungi that lives in the roots of plants.

Unlike the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter, backers of Experiment projects do not get tangible rewards for backing. Researchers share the scientific process directly with the backers and become a part of the project.

Microryza charges an 8% fee (5% for Microryza and 3% for payment processing) only if the campaign is successful. If the campaign does not reach the funding goal, no one is charged.

As of Aug 26, 2014, they passed $1M raised on their platform.

Experiment (ship)

Many vessels have born the name Experiment:

Naval vessels
  • HMS Experiment, thirteen ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Experiment (1799), a United States Navy schooner
  • USS Experiment (1832), a United States Navy schooner
Merchant vessels
  • Experiment, a horse powered boat
  • Experiment, launched in 1798, transported convicts to New South Wales in 1803
  • Experiment, launched in 1802, transported convicts to New South Wales in 1809-10
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Usage examples of "experiment".

We have also seen in the numbered experiments that narrow splinters of quill and of very thin glass, affixed with shellac, caused only a slight degree of deflection, and this may perhaps have been due to the shellac itself.

Porak, after giving some historical notes, describes a long series of experiments performed on the guinea-pig in order to investigate the passage of arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, alizarin, atropin, and eserin through the placenta.

A little like the one that had slipped away during the disastrous experiment with the jury-rigged amplifier helmet, able to think without contemplating itself.

He said if that were done they could amputate and save him, and the conversation ended in the surgeon giving the man to me to experiment on my theory.

Boyle also did not scruple to perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed himself willing to anatomize a rat with his very own hands.

Yoshiko experimented for a few minutes with the hand controller, getting the feel of the thrusters, while Tessa filmed the whole process, showing the people back home the ungainly, angular LM perched atop the spent third stage booster, and Yoshiko peering out the tiny windows as she concentrated on bringing the CSM around until the docking collar at the top of the capsule pointed at the hatch on top of the LM.

During World War II, the United States, fearful that Japan and Germany were making bioweapons, first began experimenting with anthrax and other germ warfare.

It was later discovered that Japanese scientists subjected Chinese prisoners of war to horrifying experiments with such lethal bioagents as anthrax, cholera, typhoid, and plague.

The British also conducted anthrax experiments during World War II, detonating explosive shells filled with anthrax spores on an island off the coast of Scotland.

Type III-V compounds such as indium antimonide and perhaps in all compounds, if the experiments are sensitive enough to pick up this effect.

But it is not completely proved, and it is too late now to prove it one way or another to the hilt, because, since all the world believes in the antitoxin, no man can be found heartless enough or bold enough to do the experiment which science demands.

It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.

Moon man, and having cleared the way intellectually for the great experiment, he now worked assiduously to make it succeed.

I began to think about the implications of this experiment I realized that, straightforward enough though the effect may be, it clearly does not conform to any simple associationist theory derived by an extension of pavlovian or skinnerian conditioning theory, whose essence is the immediate linking in time of stimulus and response.

Indeed, in Chapter 111 shall go on to show how our own experiments can prove that this is the case - with implications far different from those the associationists wish to draw from them.