What's the difference between expert and layman?

Expert


Definition:

  • (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
  • (n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
  • (n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
  • (n.) A sworn appraiser.
  • (v. t.) To experience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
  • (3) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (4) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (5) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (6) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
  • (7) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
  • (8) This paper describes a computer-based system that would allow doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and experts to participate in medical care in ways that will enhance the usefulness of the system, and will allow the system to grow, adapt and improve as a function of this participation.
  • (9) The program can produce solutions identical to those derived by a model-based expert system for the same domain, but with an increase of two orders of magnitude in efficiency.
  • (10) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
  • (11) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
  • (12) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
  • (13) Rules of the relations between characteristics of chemical structure and the assay result are extracted as parameters for rules by experts on the rearranged data set.
  • (14) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
  • (15) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
  • (16) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
  • (17) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
  • (18) With her expert legal aid and the help of her lawyers, I was released along with the 300 others who had been rounded up.
  • (19) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
  • (20) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.

Layman


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
  • (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the aid of 25 medical terms familiar to a layman, basic medical knowledge of the patient was tested.
  • (2) When he went on to begin a sentence with the words, "In my layman's understanding ... " Nel pounced and said: "You see, Mr Dixon, now you call yourself a layman."
  • (3) Quantum pioneer: Paul Dirac Moreover, there is a feeling, hard to convey to the layman but shared by many experienced theorists, that these ideas all hang together.
  • (4) An article written for the layman presents information on oral contraception, the IUD, the vaginal diaphragm, the condom, and foam.
  • (5) To some extent, a real effort must be made to educate the professional as well as the layman to face the diagnosis of cancer without evasion and go forward from there.
  • (6) Only in one-quarter was it very conspicuous even to the layman.
  • (7) If nothing else, this layman's take on society's ills reminds us that politics is not theirs – it's ours.
  • (8) The study of Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, and Combs reports several types of errors in subjects' frequency judgments of lethal events.
  • (9) Being a layman, all I had to go by was the height – between four and a half and five feet tall.
  • (10) For the novice and layman such a question opens usually Pandora's box of reply.
  • (11) A knowledge of the layman's illness concepts is of value both for diagnosis and therapy in the practical application of the medical services.
  • (12) Even a layman can tell what made Albert Einstein famous as a scientist.
  • (13) To investigate the layman's knowledge, perception and attitudes regarding normal body temperature, fever, infections and the effect of penicillin on virus infections a representative sample of the Norwegian population (619 women and 592 men over the age of 15) was interviewed in 1988 as part of a monthly national opinion poll.
  • (14) A 31-year-old male has been "bulls-eyed" by a car and we're in the air ambulance, flying out from the Royal London hospital to a suburban street, where the man lies in a twisted, bloodied heap with his feet pointing in what even a layman would identify as the wrong direction.
  • (15) Photograph: Getty The layman's term for this sort of offer is: a joke.
  • (16) In addition, they were questioned about therapeutic wishes if primary resuscitation with ventilation and cardiac massage were administered by a layman.
  • (17) The surgeon uses elementary mathematics just as much as any other educated layman.
  • (18) The imminent availability of inexpensive ultrasonic scanners for the layman is a worrying prospect to which the medical profession should now try to develop a prudent response.
  • (19) In order for a patient to give an informed consent for a procedure, he or she needs to understand the risks, benefits and consequences of the procedure explained in layman's terms.
  • (20) He later added: "As a layman I would now say I think we have it" – meaning the Higgs.