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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "having had experience; skillful," from Old French expert , espert "experienced, practiced, skilled" and directly from Latin expertus (contracted from *experitus ), "tried, proved, known by experience," past participle of experiri "to try, test" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expert \Ex*pert"\, v. t. To experience. [Obs.] Die would we daily, once it to expert. --Spencer.
Usage examples of expert.
Als Marc of Sofia de zeven of acht dagen die het zou kosten om hen te bereiken overleefden, zouden ze het waarschijnlijk ook nog wel een dag langer volhouden zonder behandeling door een expert.
As the second wave came in, around 0857, amphtracs of the first were beginning to retract, passing through the second, third and fourth waves with expert helmsmanship.
Experts believe that the average lethal dose for inhalational anthrax is ten thousand spores, although in view of the recent postal attacks, we now believe that a smaller number can be fatal, especially for the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.
But experts believe that illness may occur as long as sixty days after exposure to anthrax spores, because observations have shown that the spores can take that long to change to active bacteria.
Most experts believe that only a person, a group, or a country with access to advanced biotechnology would be capable of manufacturing and delivering a lethal anthrax aerosol.
For more than three decades, scientific, military, and health experts have tried to analyze the consequences of a large-scale anthrax attack.
Only trace amounts of anthrax, much less than experts believed would be needed to harm people, were found on the other letters.
And although he may give his answer at once, and at once proceed to issue his apostils if he is very expert and experienced, yet it is better to act with caution, and fix a term of ten or twenty or twenty-five days, reserving to himself the right to prorogue the hearing of the appeal up to the legal limit of time.
It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.
Watchdog has already hired someone to appraise the chops a local expert, Carliss Swilley.
Vestman at Trianon Studios for his expert audio recordings of my whole seminar and Dave Morton and the staff of Cassette Express for their continued appreciation of this material and their quality service.
Thecodonts are a diverse assemblage and their interrelationships are not fully known and agreed upon by experts, but, as a whole, they show the initiation of archosaurian tendencies.
FBI ballistics expert Robert Frazier gave testimony about these tests on May 13, 1964.
The expert opinion was more explicit at the next meeting, held the day of the Shaw-Gregory testimony and attended by those doctors, the wound ballistics experts, Specter, McCloy, and others.
Duncan MacPherson, a respected ballistics expert and consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department.