What's the difference between experience and ordeal?

Experience


Definition:

  • (n.) Trial, as a test or experiment.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (2) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (3) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (4) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (5) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
  • (6) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (7) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
  • (8) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (9) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (10) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (11) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
  • (12) Experiments are proposed by which to test these and related hypotheses.
  • (13) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (14) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
  • (15) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (16) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
  • (17) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.
  • (18) The concentrations of the drugs used in in vivo experiments did not affect the WBC counts in the peripheral blood of healthy mice.
  • (19) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
  • (20) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.

Ordeal


Definition:

  • (n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
  • (n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (2) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
  • (3) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
  • (4) They said that the family were sure DNA tests would prove she is their biological relative, but added they had been "traumatised" by the ordeal.
  • (5) Skin deepithelialization is an integral part of many reconstructive procedures, but it can be a tedious and time-consuming ordeal when using conventional techniques.
  • (6) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (7) As for Botha, he breathed a sigh of relief that his ordeal was over.
  • (8) Liang's ordeal ended when he grew so sick that he could no longer rise from his bed for the struggle sessions.
  • (9) The exercise was the highlight and halfway point of the Mars500 project, which aims to find out how humans would cope with the psychological ordeal of a real trip to Mars.
  • (10) Sami said all the survivors are likely to need psychological support after their ordeal.
  • (11) If this is not the case then we are keen to speak to victims and learn any lessons we can to improve our investigations.” Allen told the Observer that she had been left “a changed person” after the ordeal, feeling isolated from friends and family.
  • (12) Having concluded one part of their quest for justice, they now look to the British criminal courts to hold those responsible for their ordeal to account and await the judge-led inquiry they have been promised.” Belhaj, who last year led the battle for Tripoli, said: “When my friend Sami al-Saadi was freed from Abu Salim prison on 23 August 2011, he weighed seven stone.
  • (13) Ai emerged from his ordeal in June, far slimmer – having lost almost 10kg, some of which he has regained – and apparently chastened.
  • (14) FNAC not only helped detect early cancers, but its negative findings resulted in sparing patients the ordeal of surgical biopsy for benign conditions.
  • (15) A woman who had acid thrown in her face has spoken of her ordeal, describing the pain like being constantly stabbed in the eyes.
  • (16) He talked about the ordeal of retrieving dead bodies, and was critical of the defence department’s handling of personnel who had experienced trauma.
  • (17) John Kampfner Nick Griffin received the oxygen of publicity he craved, but at the end of a nation?s ordeal democracy emerged intact.
  • (18) Day is seeking compensation for those who survived the alleged ordeal.
  • (19) The spokeswoman said: “The prime minister recognises that the families of those hostages who were murdered have been through a terrible ordeal.
  • (20) The 12-hour ordeal for Stephanie – who did not wish to speak on the record or use her real name for fear of jeopardizing her job prospects – took place after police found one ounce of marijuana in her car.