(n.) One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
(a.) Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
(2) All critical care physicians should be adept at medical management of the airway, including basic and advanced life support measures.
(3) In contrast, NAD+ (which could act as a source of NADH) and NRH could avoid the shortcomings of NAD(P)H, and act as suitable cofactors for an enzyme in an ADEPT system.
(4) The use of this model enabled the resident to become more adept with the instruments for valve incision and construction of small vessel anastomosis.
(5) It may be that Westwood is simply adept at masking deep-rooted hurt when in public.
(6) As an example, Project ADEPT (Alcohol and Drug Education for Physician Training in primary care) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is described.
(7) But she is clearly adept at smoothing his writerly way.
(8) The fetal brain may be quite adept in the use of ketone bodies.
(9) The strike calls were part of the negotiating position and Crow was adept at wading through the anti-union legislation introduced by Margaret Thatcher and largely left by Labour, which was one of his reasons for falling out with the party.
(10) In order to get the best possible results, the plastic surgeon should be adept at alternative methods and should not be restricted to one technique or one prosthesis.
(11) Physicians using extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy must also be adept at percutaneous, ureteroscopic, and standard surgical stone removal methods to deal with complex clinical stone presentations.
(12) We don’t have time to try to do the things that we’re not adept at doing.
(13) Today's veterinary professional must not only be medically adept but must also possess good communications and client relations skills.
(14) Through thousands of years of starvation and poor nutrition, the human body has become adept at storing scarce nutrients.
(15) Mefloquine was more adept than artesunate at clearing residual parasites.
(16) These adept students often find it difficult to admit others into their efficient program of academic survival.
(17) His father was a national ice hockey champion, but the "phenomenally bright" son proved more adept in the classroom, winning a scholarship to Christ's Hospital school in Sussex.
(18) Staff date themselves on the internal directory, "GCWiki", by their "internet age", a measure of how many years they have been adept on the web.
(19) He added: “I am not adept at social media.” Nunberg took pains to emphasize that postings from more than a half-decade ago predated his association with the current Republican frontrunner.
(20) Ramsey has all the criteria to make him a big TV hit (think the new Russell Howard), but he's adept at picking out the social more and tics that have that "I thought that too!"