expert

[ex·pert]

An expert is someone who knows a ton about the subject at hand. The adjective form of expert describes someone or something that has that special knowledge. If you get expert instruction, that means an expert is your teacher.

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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.

Noun
a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Adjective S.
having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved b


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.


Expert

Ex*pert" , a. [F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try. See Experience.] 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.
A valiant and most expert gentleman.
What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?
Syn. -- Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.

Expert

Ex"pert , n. 1. 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. 2. (Law) (a) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition. &hand; Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty. (b) A sworn appraiser.

Expert

Ex*pert" , v. t. To experience. [Obs.]
Die would we daily, once it to expert.

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.

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.

To experience.

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Usage Examples

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I'm no expert on American politics.

I'm not really a relationship expert but ...I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

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