(n.) Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
(n.) Experience.
(v. t.) To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
(v. t.) To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
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.
Trier
Definition:
(n.) One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
(n.) One who tries judicially.
(n.) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
(n.) That which tries or approves; a test.
Example Sentences:
(1) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(2) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(3) But in terms of quality, controversy, debate and infinite variety, this has indeed been a vintage Cannes and of all the ones to miss, Lars von Trier picked the wrong one.
(4) The Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has been performing a series of bold and strange public performances in recent weeks, from hiring a skywriter to apologise to a writer he plagiarised to wearing a paper bag on his head to the premiere of Nymphomaniac , the Lars Von Trier film he stars in.
(5) This is first because such undisclosed triers might be more accurate in their self-reports when questioned a second time, but also because this group would contribute disproportionately to those trying smoking in the follow-up period.
(6) Triers versus never-triers differed on their reported images of smokers, and several psychosocial characteristics predicted trying a cigarette and intentions to smoke for boys.
(7) What Brecht felt, and what directors like Stanley or Lars von Trier are saying, is that it's not about becoming attached to the characters or imagining that it's really happening to you.
(8) The cinema version of Lars Von Trier's new film Nymphomaniac may be a draining four hours long, and split into two halves for its release, but the full uncut film extends to a truly marathon five and a half hours.
(9) The standard score means of users, triers, and nonusers differed significantly on six of seven PRECEDE model components: attitudes, beliefs, values, perceptions, reinforcing factors, and enabling factors.
(10) In any case, Von Trier himself is apparently siding with Melancholia's sternest critics.
(11) The extended edition of Lars von Trier's controversial new film Nymphomaniac was unveiled at the Berlin film festival, accompanied by the kind of press-baiting shenanigans that equalled, if not topped, those that followed the debut of Von Trier's last film, Melancholia.
(12) Von Trier, after all, has shown a peculiar genius for winding up his audience for the best part of 20 years.
(13) Inside, there is still no trace of Von Trier himself.
(14) I threw up during the first half of [Lars von Trier’s] Melancholia.
(15) On the test trial, when saline instead of epinephrine was injected, the Trier group found a conditional enhancement of NKCA.
(16) In Von Trier's latest film, British actor Stacy Martin makes her screen debut in the role of the younger Joe.
(17) It is possible that today's conflagrations mark the end of von Trier's relationship with a festival that hitherto regarded him with a fond indulgence.
(18) First we had Lars von Trier, the smirking Mephistopheles of world cinema, who made a film about the end of the world, sprung some ill-judged gags at the press conference and was promptly banished by Cannes' directors.
(19) Von Trier's comments, the directors decided, were "unacceptable, intolerable and contrary to [Cannes'] ideals of humanity and generosity".
(20) Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE January 13, 2014 The film they were successfully calling attention to promises to be Von Trier's most controversial yet.