(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!"
Novice
Definition:
(n.) One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
(n.) One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
(n.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.
(a.) Like a novice; becoming a novice.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one author stated: If nurses really want to see nursing achieve professional status, each of us--educators, administrators, and practitioners--must reexamine our interactions with novice nurses.
(2) Trait anxiety levels (predisposition to anxiety) and personality profiles were recorded in four novice anaesthetists prior to the start of their training in anaesthesia.
(3) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
(4) There was an equal representation of pharmacist trainees, novice pharmacists, and experienced clinical pharmacists.
(5) In conclusion, visual assessment of fade by novice and expert observers is improved by testing at low currents.
(6) Each novice repeatedly measured QtDopp or Qtbi in different subjects until the mean novice QtDopp or Qtbi was within 10% of the corresponding mean reference measurement in three of four consecutive subjects.
(7) Second, when two problems share surface but not structural features, spontaneous negative transfer should be stronger for novices than for experts.
(8) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
(9) It appears that experts respond to different prompts than do novices.
(10) The results of this study suggest that verbal and visual feedback are effective means of eliciting modifications in running style in female novice runners.
(11) In novice mice, NPA was 91 times more active than apomorphine in inhibiting the alphaMT-induced depletion of brain DA.
(12) The authors proposed the theory that physicians (experts) would generate less specific initial diagnostic hypotheses than would students (novices).
(13) Experts and novices viewed dynamic event sequences showing the behavior of a thermal-hydraulic system with two different displays, one that only contained information about the physical components in the system (P) and another that also contained information about higher order functional variables (P+F).
(14) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
(15) Elsewhere, the creator of theatre hit The Novice Detective, Sophie Willan , turns standup with another life-writing comedy show, On Record, about being brought up in care – which looks well worth investigating.
(16) I'm 40 years old, I don't get enough sleep and I'm afraid I'm a complete beauty novice in every way.
(17) Recent studies demonstrated that athletes use more efficient strategies than novices in sports with high perceptual requirements (Abernethy and Russel, 1984; Goulet et al., 1989; Starkes, 1987b).
(18) In this article, the development and validation of the scale, including data on its reliablity, utiliy, and communicability in training novice observers, was reported.
(19) No statistical difference for inter-observer agreement between "novices" and "expert" echographers was found in the overall Kappa statistic or in category-specific Kappa scores (gallstone, no gallstone, doubtful and inconclusive examinations) The present study suggests that the development of explicit criteria by a group of trained echographers does not eliminate inter- and intra-observer disagreement in categorizing subjects for gallbladder stones.
(20) I will be better in Rio.” Rather than being a sprinting novice, Schippers has shown exceptional pedigree since she was a teenager.