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Experimentee vs Experimented - What's the difference?

experimentee | experimented |

As a noun experimentee

is someone who is subjected to an experiment.

As a verb experimented is

(experiment).

experimentee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who is subjected to an experiment
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 29, author=Mike Hale, title=The Many Genes of Queens, and How They Ended Up There, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The experimentees learn their results at the end of the two-hour show, and while the discovery of a white man or an Ashkenazi Jew in the family tree might seem unsurprising to the viewer, it knocks some of the test subjects for a loop. }}

    experimented

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (experiment)

  • 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 [...].

    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

    References

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