(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?
Newcomer
Definition:
(n.) One who has lately come.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(2) The influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and several African and Balkan countries has strained local governments, which have scrambled to house the newcomers in old schools, office blocks and army barracks.
(3) Schools of allied health are relative newcomers to the formal academic setting.
(4) But the president's anti-immigrant stance, aimed at securing him votes from the extreme-right Front National, is not so much about newcomers.
(5) Citing slipping poll numbers and mounting scepticism among Germans about the country’s ability to handle the influx, which brought nearly 1.1 million newcomers last year, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) MPs said Merkel must face up to reality.
(6) Southampton will be confident they can play through adversity, though Koeman admits that will become increasingly difficult over the festive period, a time when newcomers such as Tadic, Pellè and Mané are accustomed to having a winter break.
(7) Leading the pack on day two was Zimmermann, who despite their 20-year career were relegated as "newcomers" as they launched a small-scale but well-received show at the Lincoln Center.
(8) Also free, there's 2012 best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd in her new show with Louise Ford, Alternative Comedy Memorial Society supremo John-Luke Roberts, controversialist Josh Howie, Sunday Assembly co-founder Pippa Evans – and indeed Omielan.
(9) And it is wracked with cultural conflict between about 12,000 long-time Williston residents and at least 21,000 newcomers who’ve arrived over the past five-odd years.
(10) Ankara has also agreed to a separate bilateral working group on the issue with Berlin, which expects to take in up to one million newcomers this year.
(11) One of the salient qualities of life in London, remarked on by long-term residents, by newcomers and by tourists, in short by everybody, is how expensive everything is.
(12) However, the newcomer has insisted he is no threat to the current manager despite speculation that his arrival could mean the 51-year-old's days on Tyneside could be numbered.
(13) Photograph: Rex Save for one key difference: the four decade mark comes as the country stands again in the grip of political transformation, led by the country’s crop of leftist mayors as well as the national newcomers, the leftwing party Podemos and centre-right Ciudadanos .
(14) The winners of all three Edinburgh comedy awards (best show, best newcomer, panel prize) performed at non-big four venues (the Stand, the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe and Bob's Bookshop).
(15) We’re not very kind to people who come up with their hand out and say, ‘Where’s your shelter?’” Indeed, every day, newcomers to Williston get off the bus or train and wander up Main Street to the Salvation Army, expecting to stay there while they find work or an apartment.
(16) The most notable newcomer was Bridesmaids' Kristen Wiig, who eighth with $12m (£7.6m).
(17) In the years since the housing market bottomed out, Tremont and other pockets of Cleveland have witnessed a tenuous revitalisation thanks to newcomers seeking city lifestyles and new investment in 21st-century industry.
(18) When asked what advice she had given the younger actors who were newcomers to the Star Wars franchise she replied: “Don’t go through the crew like wildfire.” Another questioner asked what were the strangest Star Wars merchandising items they had seen, and Fisher said: “Shampoo bottle, because you can twist off your head” – before pointing out a Princess Leia strain of marijuana was available.
(19) While some long-term residents eyed newcomers with suspicion, others opened businesses catering for them.
(20) But there are concerns in the region about the impact of the new arrivals in urban areas and emerging tensions between the newcomers and existing town-dwellers.