Baggage vs Experience - What's the difference?
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(usually, uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment
* {{quote-book, year=1929, author=Charles Georges Souli, title=Eastern Shame Girl, chapter=, edition=
, passage=As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages . }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street. }}
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(uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively..
* {{quote-book, year=1846, author=Henry Francis Cary, title=Lives of the English Poets, chapter=, edition=
, passage=
(obsolete, countable, pejorative) A woman
* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages ) felt for their master--pitied their poor master! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Charles Whibley, title=A Book of Scoundrels, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Gertrude Hall, title=Chantecler, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love! }}
(military, countable, and, uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
* {{quote-book, year=1865, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History of Friedrich II of Prussia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages , to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross. }}
* 2007 , Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945 , New York: Penguin, p 305:
Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
(label) An activity which one has performed.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (label) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
(label) The knowledge thus gathered.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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.
As nouns the difference between baggage and experience
is that baggage is (usually|uncountable) luggage; traveling equipment while experience is experiment, trial, test.baggage
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(en-noun)- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
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- He's got a lot of emotional baggage .
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- In Poland, for example, the unknown Boles?aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.
Synonyms
* (luggage) luggage, gear, stuff, bagsDerived terms
* baggage carousel * baggage claim * baggage handler * baggage reclaim * baggage train * bag and baggage * blind baggage * excess baggageexperience
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(wikipedia experience)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}
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‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}