What's the difference between neophyte and novice?

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?

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.