(n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
Example Sentences:
(1) This annual study contains descriptive statistics on applicants to the 1976--77 freshman classes of U.S. medical schools.
(2) The freshman senator from Iowa may be conservative and combative.
(3) Serum cholesterol and serum triglycerides were analyzed in their freshman and senior years.
(4) An investigation was conducted to examine correlates of emotional concerns and personality characteristics in a general freshman population.
(5) This article describes the development and application of standardized patients throughout medical training at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, in the freshman interviewing course, the second-year physical diagnosis course, third-year clerkships, a fourth-year final exercise, and residency training.
(6) Yet the scale of the ambition is a far cry from when Zuckerberg was an ambitious and competitive freshman at Harvard.
(7) Risk factors for cardiovascular disease are commonly obtained in freshman medical students for the purpose of increasing interest and awareness in preventive cardiology.
(8) Nearly three-fourths switched specialties between freshman and senior years.
(9) Responses by 358 first-year students to a career preferences questionnaire administered in the fall of their freshman year revealed that students who preferred family medicine were more interested than other students in using medicine as a tool to help people.
(10) Subjects were 112 freshman females enrolled in a midwestern university during their first semester.
(11) Freshman dental students received training in communication skills via a systematic human relations model.
(12) Participants were asked if they would approve or disapprove of abortion requests under the following circumstances: 1) a young unmarried woman accidentally gets pregnant during her freshman year of college; 2) a woman who already has children maintains that she cannot afford another child either financially or emotionally; 3) rape; 4) life of the woman is endangered by the pregnancy.
(13) Ss were college freshman who were not enrolled in a foreign language course or had not previously taken more than one semester of a foreign language.
(14) Results indicated that college freshman displayed a greater degree of imaginary audience behavior than did younger adolescents when compared to scores reported by Elkind and Bowen (1979).
(15) He was suspended for a few months, and then four years later – after a different man, an assistant principal, was arrested for fondling and exposing himself to a freshman – he was suspended again.
(16) Freshman kicker Cade Foster missed the attempt which fell into the arms of Auburn's Chris Davis who returned it from 109 yards for the game winning touchdown.
(17) Winston is on pace (190.1) to break quarterback Russell Wilson's record for best passer efficiency rating in a season and set Football Bowl Subdivision freshman records for yards passing (3,820) and touchdown passes (38).
(18) The Medical University of South Carolina integrated instruction in information science and computer technology into a required freshman-level course.
(19) The authors examined the effects of four representative boarding schools on 132 Alaskan Eskimo adolescents during their freshman and sophomore years.
(20) In addition, according to logistic regression analysis, the students with relatively lower income expectations and a freshman preference for family practice were predicted to be nine times more likely to enter family practice residencies than were students with higher income expectations and no initial family practice preference (56% versus 6%).
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.