(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).
Greenie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal's Emirates Stadium also has excellent eco credentials and the fact that an estimated 70% of Gunners' supporters use public transport to get to games gives the club further brownie (or should that be greenie) points.
(2) But rather than admit his industry policy and fiscal policy has helped cruel economic growth the prime minister is pretending that rising unemployment is all the fault of the greenies and the courts.
(3) This is an issue that falls uneasily between his band of greenies, whose main job is to look after the countryside, and the techies at the business department whose job, under Lord Mandelson, is to drive forward British business.
(4) The real injustice is the terrible service they get for their cash; the fact that people who can't afford the train or own a car don't have a public transport option, are physically excluded from travel – and for me, greenie as I am, that the most sustainable form of transport is the most expensive, the most inaccessible and the one that our transport secretary is choosing to neglect.
(5) Well, I'm back with an extremely Guardian Bioware paper cup of volcanically hot, greeny-grey liquid that's passing for tea in our King's Place HQ these days.
(6) For a wider range, check out the online gardening site Crocus.co.uk , or real greenies might enjoy the range of ex-industrial food barrels at the Centre for Alternative Technology (0845 330 4592, cat.org.uk).
(7) Other greenies crippling US growth in opposing safe tracking for natural gas.
(8) He can try to use the mine’s fate as a way to recast the climate debate back to the familiar theme of “bad” (and now apparently unpatriotic) greenies jeopardising “good” Aussie jobs.
(9) "Grud on a Greenie" is an exclamation of surprise, "Drokk" is a legal expletive and "Boing" is a spray on rubber coating which solidifies into a giant ball which people keep putting themselves in.
(10) Look past the statistical comedy – the jobs figures are actually great news | Greg Jericho Read more While the focus groups might assure him that “blaming the greenies” and “wedging labour” are the right things to do, such political tactics have nothing to do with the actual economic problems Australia currently faces.
(11) The problem for the unemployed is that goading greenies is not actually a mechanism for creating jobs.
(12) Doing an audition with bronchitis and coughing up a greeny on to the script in front of me.
(13) Among other things, today’s agenda included an imminent event built around Miliband “and young Greeny people, on the millennium development goals” (this is one of two mentions of the “G” word, and global issues way beyond Labour’s beloved cost-of-living crisis – proof, perhaps, that the Green threat is being taken seriously).
(14) German Chancellor Angela Merkel is anything but a left-wing greenie.
(15) Such might have been the hope entertained for an independent Scotland, if it weren’t for the “far left” and “greenies” that Rupert Murdoch warned were empowered by the campaign.
(16) He leaned out of a helicopter to inspect "the greeny, browny gunge" in the sea below.