(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!"
Clever
Definition:
(a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
(a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
(a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
(a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
(a.) Good-natured; obliging.
Example Sentences:
(1) With such improvements, and possibly even with more clever use of therapy that already is available, wider and more complex use of liver transplantation will be possible.
(2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
(3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
(4) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
(5) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
(6) A clever political strategy would be to exploit these tensions.
(7) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
(8) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
(9) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
(10) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(11) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(12) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(13) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
(14) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(15) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(16) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
(17) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(18) The PPP was one of those oh-so-clever schemes devised by government supposedly to attract private sector investment for infrastructure and avoiding such schemes ending up on the government's balance sheet.
(19) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
(20) That left her accelerating towards Karen Bardsley but, reacting well to the danger, Bardsley raced off her line, cleverly narrowing the angle.