(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).
Learner
Definition:
(n.) One who learns; a scholar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(2) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
(3) Children not only are fast learners and anxious to acquire new skills but also are at risk for the development of dental health problems.
(4) But under current funding arrangements, part-time learners (about 39% of the student population) are not eligible for grants and loans.
(5) Some providers, including both schools and colleges, misguidedly retain learners in unsuitable provision or try to duplicate provision in schools that is better delivered in further education colleges or work-based learning providers."
(6) Commonly there is a desire by girl learners to continue their education , especially their formal education, despite their pregnancy even when the barriers to returning to school imposed by their families or schools and social stigmas may not easily permit it.
(7) The program must be problem-centered, affording the learners the opportunities to engage in the discovery of the role of nutrition in the health of people, the nutritional environment, and the interplay between the two.
(8) It is only very recently that studies of distance learners have begun to consider gender as a variable.
(9) The first attempt to apply the problem-based learning approach to written material for use by an individual learner in the absence of a tutor led to a trial in Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan to compare a conventionally designed module with a problem-based learning module on the same topic for their respective acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency.
(10) This study provides external validation for the classification of disabled learners according to patterns of academic achievement, demonstrating a useful procedure for dealing with the intrasubject variability characteristic of disabled learners.
(11) Repeat training sessions that take into account affective dimensions as well as the diverse needs of adult learners are recommended.
(12) This study involves 413 learners (student and pupil nurses) training in the general nursing field.
(13) Findings in the studies related to the characteristics of the patient as learner support the following variables as significant for a theory of instruction: demographic characteristics including age, race, duration and type of illness, educational level, and family preparedness.
(14) Boydell's Scale for Measuring the Learner-Centredness of a Course was administered to a non-random sample of all 172 third-year students at three schools of nursing.
(15) Reflecting on Kushner’s lack of immediate experience, the veteran US Middle East peace negotiator Dennis Ross told the Jerusalem Post last week that Kushner would need to be a quick learner.
(16) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
(17) Analysis of the data showed the ward sister to be aware of her training function and her responsibility towards the student nurse as learner.
(18) Results of previous research, experience in planning, observations of the planning processes of others and discussions with expert continuing medical educators show that planning is a dynamic process of suggesting and selecting from many alternatives those instructional activities with the greatest potential for effecting the desired changes in learners.
(19) Previous research has demonstrated that the typical dental school graduate has attributes similar to the concrete sequential learner.
(20) Educational technology provides the link between teaching and learning; it should accommodate the essential interactions between learner, instructor, environment and material.