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Undergo vs Experiment - What's the difference?

undergo | experiment |

As a verb undergo

is (obsolete) to go or move under or beneath.

As a noun experiment is

experiment.

undergo

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
  • To experience; to pass through a phase.
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    The project is undergoing great changes.
  • To suffer or endure; bear with.
    • The victim underwent great trauma.
    She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg.

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    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

    References

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