(n.) One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the findings demonstrated few differences between the beginners and experts.
(2) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
(3) Don’t worry: there’s a beginner’s difficulty setting, although it’s on the harder settings that you’ll get the full bullet-hell experience.
(4) An important result of the laboratory experiment was that whereas a ski boot can be moved without difficulty into a strong forward lean position of the skier by an experienced sportsman, a beginner can only assume a forward lean with 20% less inclination (this being a significant difference).
(5) Experienced drivers and beginners, who were passengers in a car, had to indicate the moment they expected a collision with a stationary obstacle to take place.
(6) In the legal institution of driver's licence on probation the driving licence law relies on the changeability of the driving beginner by means of post-schooling.
(7) It's a perfect line, that sums up not only the dearest wish of every character in the film (and some might say those outside it), but also one that lays the foundations for the film we're discussing now, Beginners.
(8) Julien Temple , directed Bowie in pop videos and Absolute Beginners He asked me to do the Jazzin' For Blue Jean video .
(9) The advantages of this method are that the design and procedure are easy to perform by any beginner in plastic surgery.
(10) The doctors, all beginners in this type of work, were able to help substantially 72 per cent of 47 couples treated.
(11) The psychophysical strain in control service in beginners is by means of a longitudinal study analysed by somatic and psychical strain indicators.
(12) Using BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Computer Language and the Disk Operating System (DOS) the communications handshaking protocol and file transfer is established between the two computers.
(13) 669 school beginners and 739 fourth-year pupils in Göttingen were examined for caries prevalence and dental hygienic measures.
(14) Michelle Williams won for actress in a musical or comedy as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, 52 years after Monroe's win for the same prize at the Globes; while Christopher Plummer won best supporting actor for his portrayal an elderly widower who comes out as gay in the Mike Mills's Beginners.
(15) There were times on Sunday when his performance did veer into Playstation territory, albeit the opposition also seemed to have been set to ‘beginner’ mode.
(16) Starting price for six-day absolute beginners in the Waterberg Mountains is £875 all in (flights extra).
(17) It’s got one chair lift and a couple of little drag lifts for beginners.
(18) Beginner's sessions are held every Sunday 10am-noon, with advanced sessions 12-2pm.
(19) This new way of surgical organization is a practical alternative to overcome increasing limitations of hospitalization capacities and to conserve everyday surgery which is necessary for the teaching of students and surgical beginners within otherwise highly specialized institutions.
(20) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
Greenhorn
Definition:
(n.) A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a greenhorn commander-in-chief and a Democrat to boot, Washington watchers say Obama has had scant opportunity to win the military's respect, let alone its affection.
(2) And on bass is Jack Lawrence, recognisable not only as a member of the Raconteurs and Cincinnati-based trio the Greenhornes, but also because of his striking resemblance to the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.
(3) "I'm sick and tired of all that rubbish," continues Baron Funtimes, angrier now, as greenhorns Jaz, Myles, Jordan and co gulp and clench their bumcheeks.
(4) Liston was presumed invincible and the greenhorn, fresh-faced challenger was an unprecedented 8-1 underdog – odds that lengthened when, at the weigh-in, Clay’s apparent hysterics had doctors pronouncing him traumatised by fear.
(5) Wuthering Heights features Skins regular Kaya Scodelario as the adult Cathy, but her co-stars are all greenhorns: Shannon Beer, 13, and Solomon Glave, 14, as the young Cathy and Heathcliff, and 23-year-old James Howson as the older Heathcliff.
(6) But we never planned the Raconteurs either - I went over to Brendan [Benson's] house one afternoon, the Greenhornes were in town, and all of a sudden we were recording an album.