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Venture vs Experiment - What's the difference?

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Venture is a related term of experiment.


As nouns the difference between venture and experiment

is that venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey while experiment is experiment.

As a verb venture

is to undertake a risky or daring journey.

venture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
    • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
    • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
    • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
  • to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
  • To put or send on a venture or chance.
    • to venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
    • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "venture")

    Derived terms

    * venture capital

    Related terms

    * venturesome * venturous

    External links

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    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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