(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.
Rookie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(2) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
(3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
(4) The Rangers hit the ice looking to leverage their home advantage, and with 18,006 behind them, the plan was to pepper the rookie goalie Dustin Tokarski.
(5) If the stakes were high a year ago, when rookie vice-chairman Ed Woodward said Moyes was "cut from the same cloth as the Old Trafford greats who go before him", now they are that much higher still.
(6) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(7) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.
(8) Colorado’s MLS rookie of the year candidate, Dillon Powers, clashed heads nastily with Seattle’s Zach Scott and has been out since with concussion symptoms.
(9) So little, in fact, that the strategy implemented under Mayor Emanuel – sending extra officers (all rookies) to walk beats in the most violent areas – has not had the desired effect.
(10) The A’s pitcher Dallas Braden, then a rookie, certainly wasn’t happy with Rodriguez’ conduct – as you can see here.
(11) The World Cup winner and World Cup star respectively could not have taken kindly to being overlooked for a callow rookie.
(12) Faced with a rookie goalkeeper for the whole of the second half they barely tested his shot-saving ability.
(13) A get a rookie phenom on the bench in Xander Bogaerts just waiting to come in and turn the series on its head, piles of starting pitching, boatloads of bullpen talent, a Cardinals team capable of scoring in droves without hitting homers and a Boston lineup that bullied the AL all season long by racking up over 850 runs, even if they haven't scored many lately .
(14) Myers holds up at third and it looks a little bit like the rookie pitcher isn't as comfortable as he may have alluded to in his pre-game quote.
(15) In his rookie year with the Rangers, 2005, he went 1-7 with a 6.94 ERA.
(16) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.
(17) Sir Alex Ferguson finds himself outdone by the rookie in the other dug-out but everyone else who has contended for prizes this season has suffered the same experience against Barcelona.
(18) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
(19) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
(20) A fine run by the rookie who will be feeling good after donating the Packers first seven points just minutes ago.