(a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.
(n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) More importantly, it's eminently understandable in a callow youth.
(2) Julian Callow of Barclays Capital Change is largely down to the impact of import price changes.
(3) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(4) The World Cup winner and World Cup star respectively could not have taken kindly to being overlooked for a callow rookie.
(5) His 1990 BBC play Old Flames starred Stephen Fry and Simon Callow as former schoolmates who find themselves sucked into a vortex of anonymous persecution.
(6) But Blair, the callow young lawyer, elected with him in Margaret Thatcher's landslide year of 1983, was always a protégée.
(7) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(8) Wood will feature in a BBC2 documentary celebrating the career of her regular on-screen collaborator Julie Walters, and the channel will also air Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, narrated by Simon Callow, which the BBC says will feature rare and unseen archive footage of the comedian who died in June, along with contributions from actors and comedians including Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle.
(9) While in the Telegraph, Simon Callow declares that Dickens is " our first and favourite literary superstar ".
(10) Actors including Joanna Lumley, Sam West, Ralph Fiennes , Alan Rickman, Mark Rylance and Simon Callow have recorded video messages to David Cameron highlighting the plight of political prisoners held under the autocratic regime of the Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko.
(11) The website features literary manuscripts, workhouse menus and newspaper articles, along with videos of the actor Simon Callow reading extracts from some of Dickens's best-known works.
(12) Other alumni include the actor Simon Callow, former Conservative MP Jerry Hayes and rugby union star Michael Swift.
(13) Alan Ayckbourn, then a callow 20-year-old playing Stanley in an early production of the play in Scarborough, also had the temerity to ask Pinter for some biographical details of the mysterious concert pianist.
(14) Jude Law, Michael Morpurgo, Antony Gormley, Patrick Stewart, Carol Ann Duffy, Vanessa Redgrave, Simon Callow, Brian Eno, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Tony Benn, Timothy West, Dominic Cooke, AL Kennedy, Janie Dee, Neil Faulkner, Heathcote Williams, Dame Harriet Walter, Tim Pigott-Smith, Roger Lloyd Pack, Alan Rickman, Ken Loach, Ralph Steadman, Ken Livingstone, Rob Montgomery, Duncan Heining, Chris Nineham, Kate Hudson, Jan Woolf, Peter Kennard, Andy de la Tour, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt, Colin Towns, Chris Searle, Neil Yates, Steve Berry, Leo Aylen, Danny Thompson, Terry Jones, Kika Markham, Susan Wooldridge, Tony Haynes, Mike Dibb, Nic France, Leon Rosselson, Barry Miles, Liane Aukin, Alistair Beaton • "When should these commemorations end?"
(15) That is the age differential between one of the game's established legends and a rising prospect who was 15 when he first fought for money in 2005, stopping a similarly callow Abraham González in four rounds in front of a small audience in the Arena Chololo Larios, Tonala, a city on the edge of Guadalajara, not far from where he was born.
(16) Julian Callow, chief European economist at Barclays We interpret this as a clear sign the ECB is prepared to change policy significantly at its September meeting, in terms of purchasing debt without claiming seniority subject to the EFSF being deployed to buy government debt.
(17) • Simon Callow in Juvenalia is at the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh until 25 August.
(18) foliosociety.com • 'We found a glitterball and a DJ, let rip and got stonking drunk' – Simon Callow on the first night of Juvenalia
(19) Had England suffered defeat to a callow Wales side on the eve of the World Cup finals as T&T did here in Graz, Eriksson would have been firefighting after the match.
(20) Sometimes, Oldham looked like a callow teenager; at others, wild and woolly like a lonesome pilgrim.
Novice
Definition:
(n.) One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
(n.) One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
(n.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.
(a.) Like a novice; becoming a novice.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one author stated: If nurses really want to see nursing achieve professional status, each of us--educators, administrators, and practitioners--must reexamine our interactions with novice nurses.
(2) Trait anxiety levels (predisposition to anxiety) and personality profiles were recorded in four novice anaesthetists prior to the start of their training in anaesthesia.
(3) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
(4) There was an equal representation of pharmacist trainees, novice pharmacists, and experienced clinical pharmacists.
(5) In conclusion, visual assessment of fade by novice and expert observers is improved by testing at low currents.
(6) Each novice repeatedly measured QtDopp or Qtbi in different subjects until the mean novice QtDopp or Qtbi was within 10% of the corresponding mean reference measurement in three of four consecutive subjects.
(7) Second, when two problems share surface but not structural features, spontaneous negative transfer should be stronger for novices than for experts.
(8) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
(9) It appears that experts respond to different prompts than do novices.
(10) The results of this study suggest that verbal and visual feedback are effective means of eliciting modifications in running style in female novice runners.
(11) In novice mice, NPA was 91 times more active than apomorphine in inhibiting the alphaMT-induced depletion of brain DA.
(12) The authors proposed the theory that physicians (experts) would generate less specific initial diagnostic hypotheses than would students (novices).
(13) Experts and novices viewed dynamic event sequences showing the behavior of a thermal-hydraulic system with two different displays, one that only contained information about the physical components in the system (P) and another that also contained information about higher order functional variables (P+F).
(14) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
(15) Elsewhere, the creator of theatre hit The Novice Detective, Sophie Willan , turns standup with another life-writing comedy show, On Record, about being brought up in care – which looks well worth investigating.
(16) I'm 40 years old, I don't get enough sleep and I'm afraid I'm a complete beauty novice in every way.
(17) Recent studies demonstrated that athletes use more efficient strategies than novices in sports with high perceptual requirements (Abernethy and Russel, 1984; Goulet et al., 1989; Starkes, 1987b).
(18) In this article, the development and validation of the scale, including data on its reliablity, utiliy, and communicability in training novice observers, was reported.
(19) No statistical difference for inter-observer agreement between "novices" and "expert" echographers was found in the overall Kappa statistic or in category-specific Kappa scores (gallstone, no gallstone, doubtful and inconclusive examinations) The present study suggests that the development of explicit criteria by a group of trained echographers does not eliminate inter- and intra-observer disagreement in categorizing subjects for gallbladder stones.
(20) I will be better in Rio.” Rather than being a sprinting novice, Schippers has shown exceptional pedigree since she was a teenager.