What's the difference between adept and aptitude?

Adept


Definition:

  • (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!"

Aptitude


Definition:

  • (n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.
  • (n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
  • (n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This article reviews the general concepts of aptitude and ATI and summarizes lesions learned in ATI research on educational treatments that should help ATI research on psychotherapeutic treatments.
  • (2) Psychometric tests of verbal and spatial ability were included to assess convergent and discriminant validity of hypothesized relationships between aptitude test performance and basic cognitive processes.
  • (3) The results of repair of posterior urethral strictures, even the complex ones, by anastomotic procedures can be excellent but real competence depends upon a particular aptitude of the surgeon for the minutiae of reconstructive techniques, appropriate training in a specializing department, a real ongoing numerical experience and special instrumentation with facilities for detailed urodynamic evaluation of this sphincter active area of the urethra.
  • (4) In a separate session verbal, spatial and abstract reasoning subtests of the Differential Aptitude Test were administered.
  • (5) VO2 max varied with age, athletic participation and aptitude score.
  • (6) An aptitude test has been designed to assess the psychomotor ability of surgeons under the special conditions and difficulties of endoscopic surgery.
  • (7) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
  • (8) This haemoglobin abnormality therefore underlines the question of aptitude of navigation personnel in national or international air-lines.
  • (9) There are relationships between cannabis use and geographic area of enlistment, religious preference, aptitude scores, race, educational level, and age at enlistment.
  • (10) A deepening of analysis in extrapolation scientific aptitude and preventive exposition to valid experiences since 1st.
  • (11) Right and left cerebral hemisphere and limbic scores derived from the Herrmann Brain Dominance Profile, Scholastic Aptitude Test Verbal and Mathematics scores, and High School Grade Point Average were correlated with grades in college developmental courses in reading, English, and mathematics for 146 students.
  • (12) The authors examine prophylactic aspects of laser-induced injury in personnel dealing with these radiations, especially as far as ocular pathology and criteria of aptitude to work with these radiations from the point of view of function of the visual apparatus are concerned.
  • (13) After ten years of experience with therapeutic vacations in a department for chronic psychotic patients the aptitude of these vacations as part of a long term ward-treatment programme is discussed.
  • (14) Results indicated no substantial differences in correlations for the two types of tests, and hence little or no support for the notion of an aptitude-achievement distinction based on differential heritabilities.
  • (15) The task of appraising aptitudes and inclinations accompanies a rehabilitee and the rehabilitation workers involved for the entire duration of an occupationally-focussed rehabilitation measure.
  • (16) Recommendations on the knowledge and aptitudes to be acquired during the basic training of dental practitioners have been accepted by the EC member states.
  • (17) As chairman of the Bar Council he once complained that some of his peers got into the profession through accent rather than aptitude, saying: "People from a privileged background are sometimes recruited even though they are not up to the job intellectually."
  • (18) Research that combines correlational and experimental approaches in a search for aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) is both inescapable and of potential benefit to the field.
  • (19) Subsequently, the prophylactic as well as therapeutic potency of selected immunomodulating drugs should be evaluated in various models of aptitude, such as chronic infection, autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammatory reactions.
  • (20) Thus, surgeons with a general urologic training who do not have both a special additional and ongoing experience of reconstructive procedures and a particular aptitude for the problems involved must be advised that "having a go" is not in the best interests of their patients.