Experiment vs Lash - What's the difference?
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Experiment is a related term of lash. As nouns the difference between experiment and lash is that experiment is experiment while lash is the thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. As a verb lash is to strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one or lash can be to bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten. As an adjective lash is (obsolete) remiss, lax.
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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lash English
Etymology 1
(en)
Noun
( es)
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
- I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
(label) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
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A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
- The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night)
Verb
( es)
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. —
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
- And big waves lash the frighted shores. —
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
citation
, page=
, passage=Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.}}
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. —
To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
- to lash vice
To ply the whip; to strike.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. —
(of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland
, work=BBC Sport
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, page=
, passage=With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.}}
See also
* lash out
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lachier, from (etyl)
Verb
( es)
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- to lash something to a spar
- lash a pack on a horse's back
( to bind with a rope)
* Finnish:
( trans-mid)
* Jèrriais: ( t)
( trans-bottom)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) lasche'' (French '' ).
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Remiss, lax.
(obsolete) Relaxed.
Soft, watery, wet.
* 1658': Fruits being unwholesome and '''lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
(Ulster) excellent, wonderful
- ''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash !
- That Chinese (food) was lash !
Drunk.
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