Examination vs Ordeal - What's the difference?
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The act of examining.
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, title= Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
A formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to text books or the like.
A painful or trying experience.
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A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
Examination is a related term of ordeal.
As nouns the difference between examination and ordeal
is that examination is the act of examining while ordeal is a painful or trying experience.examination
English
(wikipedia examination)Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
Derived terms
* * bar examination * clinical examination * cross-examination * cross examination * direct examination * exam * examination-in-chief * final examination * physical examination * re-examination * self-examinationordeal
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Arsène Wenger confessed: "The result was not an accurate indication of the match." Certainly, at half-time it seemed unlikely that Arsenal would catch fire so spectacularly because the first half was a damp squib of a display from Wenger's team, as Newcastle initially showed no ill-effects from their Old Trafford ordeal .}}