different between endeavour vs experiment

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?d?v.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?d?v.?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Noun

endeavour (plural endeavours)

1. Britain standard spelling of endeavor.
   • 1748, David Hume, in Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 9

     The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians […] .

   • 1873, J C Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, volume 2, page 184:

     As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view.

Verb

endeavour (third-person singular simple present endeavours, present participle endeavouring, simple past and past participle endeavoured)

1. Britain standard spelling of endeavor.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 2:

     The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.

   • November 20, 1777, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Debate in the Lords on the Address of Thanks

     It is our duty […] to endeavour the recovery of these most beneficial subjects.

   • 1669 May 18, Sir Isaac Newton, Letter (to Francis Aston):

     If you be affronted, it is better, in a foreign country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for, in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.

English

Etymology

From Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?sp?.??.m?nt/, /?k?sp?.??.m?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.?.m?nt/, /?k?sp??.?.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: ex?per?i?ment

Noun

experiment (plural experiments)

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.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.

2. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment, / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

Derived terms

• sexperiment

Related terms

• experimental

Translations

Verb

experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)

1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
   • 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:

     Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.

Derived terms

• experimenter

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “experiment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin exper?mentum, attested from 1460.

Noun

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Derived terms

• experimental
• experimentar

References

Further reading

• “experiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “experiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “experiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ksp?r?m?nt]

Noun

experiment m

1. experiment

Synonyms

• pokus m

Related terms

• experimentovat
• experimentální

Further reading

• experiment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ment

Noun

experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)

1. experiment

Synonyms

• proef
• test

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: eksperimen

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin exper?mentum.

Noun

experiment m (plural experiments)

1. experiment

Related terms

• experimentar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin experimentum

Noun

experiment n (plural experimente)

1. experiment

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exper?mentum, attested from 1682.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ksp(?)r??m?nt/

Noun

experiment n

1. experiment

Declension

Related terms

• experimentell

References