(n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
Example Sentences:
(1) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(2) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
(3) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
(4) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
(5) Tony Abbott has heard the message on the need to change his leadership style, a senior minister has said, warning the prime minister’s detractors against moving an “amateur-hour” spill motion next week.
(6) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
(7) The movie is sustained by a brilliant amateur cast, chosen by Greengrass from Somali immigrants in Minneapolis .
(8) A previously obscure artist has become famous overnight because of the amateur restorer's exploit.
(9) On Friday, Hacked Off called for an urgent correction to one of the major sticking points for Fleet Street: the unintended vulnerability of the amateur blogger who, due to "bad government drafting", could have found themselves liable for exemplary damages.
(10) They regarded them as amateurs and oiks and refused to extend to them any degree of autonomy.
(11) This week's victims, siblings Stuart and Jill, both love amateur dramatics.
(12) In a sign of the tension, amateur video footage showed Turkish military personnel refusing to help the riot police, as well as handing out gas masks to demonstrators.
(13) In England, they identify the players coming in and if they are professional, they are allowed to play,” Tavecchio said at the summer assembly of Italy’s amateur leagues.
(14) Sweden banned professional boxing in 1969 and has also considered banning amateur boxing.
(15) The shift in policy was a direct response to weeks of negative media reports surrounding photographers, amateur and professional, who said they were being unfairly stopped, usually under section 44, a law allowing officers to stop and search without need for "suspicion" within designated areas in the UK.
(16) He included a link to a YouTube clip of his amateur bout against Charles "Pink Pounder" Jones.
(17) Politicians including the prime minister were highly visible during a Games that delivered the best British medal haul for more than a century, but practitioners such as Jon Glenn, head of youth and community at the Amateur Swimming Association, said: "The government needs to start showing by its actions that it values physical activity.
(18) The position of the American Medical Association (AMA) has evolved from promoting increased safety and medical reform to recommending total abolition of both amateur and professional boxing.
(19) It also aims to draw on the voices of the millions of people who enjoy British artistic life as audiences, amateur participants, volunteers or visitors.
(20) Annoyed at the labyrinthine politics of amateur boxing, Fury turned pro just after his 20th birthday.
Dabbler
Definition:
(n.) One who dabbles.
(n.) One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
(2) Furthermore, these results show that little can be learned about cardiac responses in free diving ducks from studies of forced dives in dabblers or divers.
(3) On screen, after all, she has come to ennoble the dabblers.
(4) The few among them who attempt to do something in what is, after all, the history of their profession, are often considered, by historians, naive dabblers who lack knowledge and capacity for the task.
(5) An occult dabbler (“dressed in Crowley’s uniform”), Bowie clearly relished the role of “superbeing”, living on the edge, pushing himself ever harder.
(6) Born in 1714 into a well-to-do family of farmers and clergy in north Wales, Wilson trained as a portrait painter in London, but was considered to be something of a dabbler.
(7) You’ll be a dabbler.’” She shakes her head at the memory: “And if you hear a certain criticism at a certain point in your life, it sticks with you.
(8) I thought that was it, I’d for ever be a dabbler.” Is this such a bad thing?
(9) The UN's special rapporteur on housing, Raquel Rolnik, a Brazilian academic, was dubbed a "Brazil nut" and "a dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx" in some of Wednesday's newspapers after she had called for the bedroom tax to be abolished.
(10) Even if you did, though, you’re probably a dabbler: you have little choice.
(11) They were all romancers, metaphysicals, dabblers in literary alchemy determined to spin gossamer filigree out of the apparently unpromising stuff of American life.
(12) Diving bradycardia is driven by chemoreceptors in the dabbler and caused by stimulation of narial receptors in the diver.