(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!"
Snazzy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(2) Then came the comfortable dorm room, the snazzy banquets and the complimentary Peking opera tickets.
(3) He has just launched Fushin’s snazzy food truck .
(4) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
(5) Circling a packed peninsula lined with scores of snazzy hotels and designer boutiques, the beaches will be buzzing from January to March, perpetually topped up by a cavalcade of South America's rich and famous.
(6) You don't get to wear the snazzy tear-drop helmets though?
(7) A mix of low prices, snazzy stores and up-to-the-minute fashion delivered a 25% rise in sales for Primarkin the three months to 5 January without a single item sold online.
(8) You find a discreet diplomat, bright white shirt, snazzy blue wool tie, eyes kind behind designer specs.
(9) Paul Gailey invites us all to enter our annual salary into this snazzy gizmo and then feel crushed when it tells us how many years it would take us to earn Andy Carroll's weekly wage.
(10) After snazzy interplay Morgan Schneiderlin fed Pellè, who swept the ball gratefully into the net from close range.
(11) It feels like there have never been so many people pounding pavements – often in snazzy leggings and high-vis, dry-fit tops.
(12) City, led out by Roberto Mancini for now, are wearing snazzy blue tracksuit tops.
(13) • 01485 210262, whitehorsebrancaster.co.uk FISH AND CHIP SHOPS The Rockfish Seafood & Chips , Dartmouth, Devon Photograph: Chris Terry This snazzy chippy, just opened in June, is the new endeavour from Mitch Tonks, the former Fishworks owner.
(14) Lenny is careful to remove his snazzy sunglasses in front of his pals, and tries to conceal the fact that the young Asian woman in his party is in fact his children's au pair.
(15) Dressed in a grey top and checked scarf, she clutches a pair of snazzy black and orange sunglasses, which she taps against her leg for emphasis.