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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