different between proceeding vs experience

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???si?d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Verb

proceeding

1. present participle of proceed

Noun

proceeding (plural proceedings)

1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
2. An event or happening; something that happens
   • 1919, Rita Wellman, The Wings of Desire

     He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.

   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 50

     It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of ‘Sawyer, late Nockemorf,’ that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters—the which, being an unusual and an unbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.

3. (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
4. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
6. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
   • 1848, Lord Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second

     The proceedings of the high commission.

7. (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
   • December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner

     Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.

Synonyms

• procedure
• measure
• step

Translations

See also

• transaction.

Anagrams

• prodigence

English

Etymology

From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.i.?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.???ns/
• Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ence

Noun

experience (countable and uncountable, plural experiences)

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.
   • 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.
2. (countable) An activity one has performed.
3. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     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.

4. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "experience": broad, wide, good, bad, great, amazing, horrible, terrible, pleasant, unpleasant, educational, financial, military, commercial, academic, political, industrial, sexual, romantic, religious, mystical, spiritual, psychedelic, scientific, human, magical, intense, deep, humbling, unforgettable, unique, exciting, exhilarating.

Antonyms

• inexperience

Hyponyms

• (activity one has performed): user experience

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

experience (third-person singular simple present experiences, present participle experiencing, simple past and past participle experienced)

1. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Synonyms

• undergo

Derived terms

• experienceable
• re-experience. reexperience

Translations

Further reading

• experience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• experience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• experience in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "experience" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 126.
• experience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• experience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.