experiment
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Is experiment a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.Examples: "Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, The maisters of his long experiment, And to them does the steddy helme apply [...]."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.Examples: "We're going to experiment on rats."; "As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails."; "Bob is a shameless tourist: Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Twin Peaks, ad infinitum. I think walking the streets with a map in hand looks dumb; experimenting is much more fun."intransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.Examples: "The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest."obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.Examples: "Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary