(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).
Neophyte
Definition:
(n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.
(n.) A novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study investigates neophyte student nurses' attitudes to working with the elderly through placing them in relation to attitudes to other nursing career options and by exploring student nurses' reasons for such attitudes.
(2) Tsipras, a neophyte prime minister, then spent much of Sunday on the phone to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, President Hollande of France, and Juncker, trying to prove he was an adult.
(3) As you all know, the president is a neophyte in politics.
(4) As the neophyte becomes seasoned, these triumphant challenges will become a part of the position she has struggled for and deserves.
(5) Instead, he’s getting his rear end handed to him by a meringue-haired hotelier and a political neophyte surgeon who speaks with the dizzy wonderment of someone trying to describe their dream from last night while taking mushrooms for the first time.
(6) To be accepted into the drug scene, the neophyte must furnish proof of his reliability, which often includes certain forms of criminal activities.
(7) Over five months of negotiations, Varoufakis, a leftwing economist and neophyte politician, has rubbed his interlocutors up the wrong way, persistently arguing he is right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to dealing with the Greek debt crisis.
(8) Among the Senoufo of Ivory Coast (Nafara), one of the main acts of male initiation ceremonies--to the Poro, which is the very basis of the Senoufo's ethnic identity--is a ritual intercourse between the neophytes and their symbolic mother who has just given birth to them.
(9) What kinds of features should a neophyte look for in computer hardware?
(10) Consequently, when nonvision-related failures were excluded from the calculation of success rates, 59% of those fitted with lenses (49% of neophytes and 66% of experienced subjects) were still wearing the lenses at 12 months.
(11) The debate on Wednesday did not bolster his support: in a poll released on Thursday, Bush trailed the trio of political neophytes among voters in New Hampshire.
(12) And for Trump, a political neophyte from Queens looking to get on Manhattan’s “fast track” (in the words of Trump ally Roger Stone), the relationship was transformational.
(13) Donald Trump’s proposed new point man on the Middle East peace process, his 36-year-old son-in-law Jared Kushner , is almost unknown to Israeli business and political figures and an even greater mystery to Palestinians, as well as a diplomatic neophyte.
(14) The neophyte might be somewhat surprised to learn, for example that an experienced colleague who lives in a holoendemic malarious area such as West Africa, sees no cerebral malaria.
(15) This budget could be a formidable display of power and a rebuttal to those critics who have derided Mr Osborne as a neophyte.
(16) This is a two-pronged critique of a study of the socialisation of neophyte nurses in a neonatal intensive care unit in the USA.
(17) It is an appalling record for a partly Swiss-educated, un-academic political neophyte who, in another life, and coming from a more normal family, might happily have spent his time eating too much fast food, playing computer games and cheering on his favourite basketball team .
(18) The surgeon, especially the neophyte, must recognise which irises may present a difficulty in establishing, maintaining, and reversing mydriasis, with or without the introduction of an intraocular lens.
(19) Although a mentor may prove beneficial, not all neophyte researchers will be employed at institutions with seasoned nurse researchers.
(20) Have nurse neophytes been set up for failure by academics?