experience
- experiment
‘experience’
If you have experience of something, you have seen it, done it, or felt it.
Do you have any teaching experience?
I've had no experience of running a business.
An experience is something that happens to you or something that you do.
Moving house can be a stressful experience.
You say that someone has an experience.
I had a strange experience last night.
Be careful
Don't say that someone ‘makes an experience’.
Don't say that someone ‘makes an experience’.
‘experiment’
Don't use ‘experience’ to refer to a scientific test that is carried out in order to discover or prove something. Use experiment.
Laboratory experiments show that Vitamin D may slow cancer growth.
Try it out in an experiment.
You usually say that someone does, conducts, or carries out an experiment.
We decided to do an experiment.
Several experiments were conducted at the University of Zurich.
Be careful
Don't say that someone ‘makes an experiment’.
Don't say that someone ‘makes an experiment’.