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EXPERT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("expert" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expert"):
jurist; legal expert (a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations)
lapidarist; lapidary (an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them)
logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)
mnemonist (an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory)
mythologist (an expert on mythology)
nerd (an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession)
commentator; observer (an expert who observes and comments on something)
out-and-outer (someone who is excellent at something)
parliamentarian (an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures)
past master (someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity)
prosthetist (an expert in prosthetics)
pteridologist (an expert in the study of ferns)
guide; pathfinder; scout (someone who can find paths through unexplored territory)
shark (a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways)
shooter; shot (a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot))
specialiser; specialist; specializer (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)
talent (a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity)
technician (someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique)
technocrat (an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group)
healer; therapist (a person skilled in a particular type of therapy)
old-timer; old hand; old stager; oldtimer; stager; veteran; warhorse (an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service)
ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
agronomist (an expert in soil management and field-crop production)
all-rounder; all arounder (a versatile person who is expert at many things)
analyst (someone who is skilled at analyzing data)
analyst (an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions)
anatomist (an expert in anatomy)
antiquarian; antiquary; archaist (an expert or collector of antiquities)
arbiter; supreme authority (someone with the power to settle matters at will)
archer; bowman (a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow)
authority (an expert whose views are taken as definitive)
black belt (a person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate))
cabalist; kabbalist (an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters)
calculator; computer; estimator; figurer; reckoner (an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines))
climatologist (someone who is expert in climatology)
computer expert; computer guru (an authority on computers and computing)
cosmetologist (an expert in the use of cosmetics)
efficiency engineer; efficiency expert (an expert in increasing the efficient use of machines and personnel)
exegete (a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts))
genealogist (an expert in genealogy)
geographer (an expert on geography)
horticulturist; plantsman (an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants))
investigator (someone who investigates)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Example:
the effect was achieved by skillful retouching
Synonyms:
adept; expert; good; practiced; proficient; skilful; skillful
Classified under:
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Derivation:
expertness (skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
Example:
technical language
Synonyms:
expert; technical
Classified under:
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Derivation:
expertise (skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge)
Context examples:
Experts at the University of Nottingham have an explanation.
(Why Is Yawning so Contagious?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The CNS is a clinical expert in theory-based and/or research-based nursing practice within a specialty area.
(Clinical Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
A program of the National Institutes of Health to bring together an independent group of experts to review scientific evidence related to an important public health issue.
(Consensus Development Program, NCI Dictionary)
A scholarly process that subjects an author's work or ideas to the scrutiny of one or more others who are experts in the field.
(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)
From experts to other parents, people are always ready to offer advice.
(Parenting, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of his own people he hath brought together, as I learn, some fifty thousand, with twelve thousand of the French free companies, who are, as you know very valiant and expert men-at-arms.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Experts say that the organs from one donor can save or help as many as 50 people.
(Organ Donation, Health Resources and Services Administration)
NPs are master's degree prepared health experts that focus on helping patients achieve total health and prevent disease.
(Nurse practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)
The application of medical knowledge to questions of law; research, reports and testimony in court by experts in medical science to assist in determining a legal question.
(Forensic Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)
