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Ruminative vs Experiment - What's the difference?

ruminative | experiment |

As an adjective ruminative

is causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.

As a noun experiment is

a test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.

As a verb experiment is

to conduct an experiment.

ruminative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , author=F. Scott Fitzgerald , title=The Beautiful and Damned , chapter=5 citation , passage=They waited expectantly while he directed a ruminative yawn toward the white smiling moon.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1864 , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=12 citation , passage=‘It happened,’ returned the man, with a ruminative air, as he drew his right hand across his chin, and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat, ‘it happened somewhere about here as I reckon. I don’t think it can have been a mile from here.’}}
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    • Synonyms

    * meditative

    experiment

    English

    (wikipedia experiment)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
  • (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment , / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

    Related terms

    * experimental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To conduct an experiment.
  • (obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
    • The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
  • (obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
  • * 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
    • Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.

    Derived terms

    * experimenter

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