(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!"
Inexpert
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.
(a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The expert and inexpert alike are lining up to warn us not to leave it too late, from consultant gynaecologist Professor Geeta Nargund, who recently advised that women start trying for a baby at 30, in order to avoid falling victim to the “fertility time bomb” hanging over Britain, to broadcaster Kirstie Allsopp, who wrote that she would tell her daughter (if she had one) to have a child at 27 .
(2) The undesirable consequences of inexpert primary repair are contrasted with the near normal function and cosmesis obtained after repair carried out with the author's 5-layer suturing technique described here for the first time.
(3) Analysis of social factors reveals a high percentage of avoidable factors: 24.2% due to patient errors and 27% due to lack of or inexpert care during antenatal care, and 19% inadequate care in the hospital.
(4) A decision support module allows an inexpert user to have access to these models, and to be guided in the choice of the appropriate procedure.
(5) The menu-driven interactive approach insures a friendly user-to-system interface, and entails a little training for effective use by health workers inexpert in informatics.
(6) Two workmen suffered avoidable fatal injuries from broken parts of abrasive wheels during inexpert handling of these machine tools.
(7) But what others see as inexpert opportunism, Trudeau defends on grounds of principle.
(8) For cars, Tesla and others have launched what amounts to one of the biggest human-computer interaction experiments in the world to find out, trialling novel control modes and algorithms on inexpert and inexperienced drivers, and streaming data from thousands of vehicles back to the cloud for analysis.
(9) It was hypothesized that, as previous studies have shown, a high rate of participation would influence choice of the confederate as leader in the inexpert condition but that talkativeness would not be influential in the expert condition.
(10) Based on an inexpert translation of the spidery script by the Guardian, it appears to begin by listing the Tories' "red lines" on which they are not prepared to give ground: Europe, immigration and the Trident nuclear deterrent.
(11) On site, the technologies are often inexpertly applied, and along with expensive pharmaceuticals, they become a drain on national resources.
(12) Report on intra-abdominal hemorrhage following inexpert injection into the abdominal wall of calcium-heparin concentrate (Calciparin, Nattermann, Cologne) in a patient with septic abortion.
(13) Intra- and interobserver variation was lower among experienced morphometrists than among inexpert observers.
(14) A confederate in each group was identified as either expert or inexpert, made expert or inexpert contributions, and either talked a lot or relatively little.
(15) A complication of inexpert handling of the Olbert catheter system is presented.
(16) There's also a section called "bumhunts", a parody of crocodile hunts, in which a sadistic college-boy nomark ambushes a tramp, trusses him up inexpertly, and drags him off, as if he were a crocodile.
(17) The possibility of negative histologic results combined with positive cytology is shown to be due to inexpert biopsy.
(18) There are 4 arguments against do-it-y ourself testing: 1) it may be inaccurate or inexpertly done, 2) reagents can be hazardous to the health of users or small children, 3) it fails to save money because confirmation by health professionals is usually required, and 4) the individual may not have access to appropriate healt h care resources.
(19) "Peter Connolly died because too many unco-ordinated and fragmented services, staffed by too few and inexpert staff, were involved in his care.