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Expert : adj : 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 by
skillful retouching" [syn: adept, good, practiced,
proficient, skillful, skilful]
(noun)
1: a person with special knowledge or ability who performs
skillfully
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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. --Shak.
What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words
to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?
--Tennison.
Syn: Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Note: 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Expert : \Ex*pert"\, v. t.
To experience. [Obs.]
Die would we daily, once it to expert. --Spencer.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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