Meaning of experience | Babel Free

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1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. To participate in personally; undergo: experience a great adventure; experienced loneliness.
3. expertise
4. An activity one has performed.
   countable
5. Personal knowledge derived from participation or observation:acquaintance, familiarity.
6. third-person singular present indicative
7. A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
   uncountable, usually
8. to have experience of; to feel. I have never before experienced such rudeness! ervaar, ondervind يُجَرِّب преживявам experimentar zažít erfahren, erleben opleve; fornemme δοκιμάζω, νιώθωexperimentar kogema تجربه کردن؛ متحمل شدن kokea éprouver לָחווֹת अनुभव करना iskusiti átél (vmit) mengalami reyna, upplifa provato 経験する 체험하다 patirti pieredzēt; pārdzīvot; piedzīvot merasa ervarenoppleve, erfare doznawać, doświadczać تجربه كول experimentar/sofrer, conhecer a cu­noaşte; a simţi испытывать zažiť i...
9. second-person singular imperative
10. The knowledge thus gathered.
    uncountable
11. having gained knowledge from experience; skilled. an experienced mountaineer. ervare مُجَرِّب، ذو خِبْرَه опитен experiente zkušený erfahren erfaren; rutineret έμπειρος, πεπειραμένοςexperimentado kogenud با تجربه؛ کارکشته kokenut expérimentéמנוסה अनुभवी iskusan tapasztalt berpengalaman reyndur esperto 経験豊かな 경험이 많은 patyręs pieredzējis; piedzīvojis berpengalaman ervarenerfaren, øvetdoświadczony په تجربى سره experiente/experimentado experimentat опытный skúsený izkušen iskusan erfaren ซึ่งได้รับ...
12. Synonym of experience points
    countable, uncountable
13. experiencia, práctica; he has a lot of ___ as a surgeon → él tiene mucha ___ como cirujano.
14. Trial; a test or experiment.
    obsolete, uncountable
15. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
16. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair.
17. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
18. direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact: experience of prison life.
19. a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone: an experience to remember.

Equivalents

Examples

“It was an experience he would not soon forget.”

“March 20, 1684-5, John Sharp, Sermon preached at Whitehall Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.”

““I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. […]””

“Lastly, I must mention the "Underground," to travel on which was, in those days, an experience to be remembered. There were the antique looking engines, and the rather grim carriages, with the fascinating indicators in the compartments to show (not always correctly!) the next station, and above all, there was the atmosphere.”

“Virtually all employers now require jobseekers to have work experience even for entry-level roles. Many believe this will hurt companies in the long run.”

“they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of Rulers is”

“Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.”

“We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.”

“In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.”

“As your troops conquer the enemy, they'll earn experience and gain levels. Each time they level up, their stats will increase.”

“She caused him to make experience / Vpon wyld beasts, which she in woods did find, / With wrongfull powre oppressing others of their kind”

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