Specialist
['speʃ(ə)lɪst] or ['spɛʃəlɪst]
Definition
(noun.) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning.
(noun.) practices one branch of medicine.
Edited by Lester--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
Editor: Marilyn
Examples
- I say this here for two reasons--because I hope to avoid the critical attack of the genuine Marxian specialist, and because the observation is, I believe, relevant to our subject. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These are matters for the theological specialist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whatever natural science may be for the specialist, for educational purposes it is knowledge of the conditions of human action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pupils begin their study of science with texts in which the subject is organized into topics according to the order of the specialist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The community is certainly the gainer, and no one the loser, save the poor out-of-work specialist, whose occupation has gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet he need not be a specialist himself, if only he is expert in choosing experts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As a result, every operator soon becomes a specialist, and specialization is the fundamental principle of the entire organization. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He sank his head upon his hands, while the Inspector smiled at the effect which his case had had upon the famous London specialist. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It has been stated by that eminent specialist in steam engineering, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His mind is lucid and flexible, and he has the faculty of taking advice quickly, of stating something he has borrowed with more ease and subtlety than the specialist from whom he got it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A fraudulent imitation, Watson, though I should hardly dare to hint as much to our specialist. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even if all students were embryonic scientific specialists, it is questionable whether this is the most effective procedure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The oculist, the dentist, indeed medical specialists of all kinds, are coming to recognize the immense aid that electricity can give in its various forms and applications. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The specializations of these topics are for the specialists; their interaction concerns man as a being whose experience is social. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is only eccentric poets and narrow specialists who lock the doors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Where are the detailed proposals by specialists, for decent housing and working conditions, for educational reform, for play facilities? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am not a lover of the cultural activities of our schools and colleges, still less am I a lover of shallow specialists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This re quired the intervention of specialists, expert rope-fasteners, who laid off a triangle by means of a rope divided into three parts, of three, four, and five units. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typed by Hector