(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!"
Experienced
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Exrerience
(p. p. & a.) Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anesthesiology residency programs experienced unprecedented growth from 1980 to 1986.
(2) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
(3) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
(4) Febrile reactions were not distributed randomly among the patients; those with respiratory tract infection experienced more febrile reactions during periods with infection than during periods without.
(5) One patient had amelioration of his symptoms, 5 experienced no change and in 5 their symptoms became worse.
(6) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
(7) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(8) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(9) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
(10) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(11) The University of the Arts London and Sunderland, Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Met and Leeds Met university have also experienced sharp declines in applications.
(12) The percentages of women in this population who were sexually experienced were the same in all 3 years (88% in 1975, 87% in 1986 and 87% in 1989).
(13) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
(14) Those with an increase of 15% in mean PEFR in the week on active treatment and who experienced subjective benefit should be supplied with a compressor.
(15) Dental patients were classified by experienced dentists as MPD or non-MPD patients.
(16) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(17) It is likely that the severe thrombocytopenia experienced by our patient was caused by a single dose of plicamycin.
(18) The effect of pH neutralization on the pain experienced during intradermal lidocaine administration was investigated in a prospective blind study of 20 adult volunteers.
(19) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
(20) Qualitative and quantitative comparisons between the short and the long time interval studies were performed by four experienced observers.