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specialist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Specialist \Spe"cial*ist\, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852 (originally in the medical sense and much scorned by the GPs); see special (adj.) + -ist. Perhaps immediately from French spécialiste (1842). In general use in English by 1862. Related: Specialism.
Wiktionary
a. (context British English) specialised. n. 1 Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research. 2 (context medicine English) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery. 3 (context US military English) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
WordNet
n. an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning [syn: specializer, specialiser] [ant: Renaissance man]
practices one branch of medicine [syn: medical specialist]
Wikipedia
Specialist frequently refers to an expert in a profession. It can also mean:
- Specialist (rank), a military rank
- Specialist degree, in academia
- Specialty (medicine)
- "Specialist", a song by the band Interpol
- "The Specialist", the English translation of " Lo Sconosciuto", an Italian comics character
- Generalist and specialist species, a method of species categorization
- A market maker in a stock exchange
- Payload Specialist, a Space Shuttle crew member selected for a single specific mission
- The Specialist, a 1994 action film
- Specialist, a military avionics, electrical & environmental, or engines expert
- American football special teams player who is either a return specialist or a kicking specialist
- "Specialist" (short story), a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley
- Specialist, one of the Belbin team roles
- Specialist, a series of Japanese drama starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Specialist (abbreviated "SPC") is a military rank in some countries' armed forces. In the United States military, it is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the U.S. Army, above private first class and equivalent in pay grade to corporal. Unlike corporals, specialists are not considered junior non-commissioned officers (NCOs).
In the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), specialists are the group of ranks equivalent to non-commissioned officers in other armed forces. This term was introduced in 1993, for a more "positive" rank classification and shorter waiting time for WOSPEC career soldiers' rank advancements. In the SAF, warrant officers are not considered specialists.
Like many other modern militaries, the specialist corps forms the backbone of the military. Specialists are the supervisors for the training and discipline of the enlisted men, and as well as the supervisors in the use of weapons and equipment, drill and ceremonies.
The following ranks are specialist ranks:
- Specialist cadet (SCT)
- Third sergeant (3SG)
- Second sergeant (2SG)
- First sergeant (1SG)
- Staff sergeant (SSG)
- Master sergeant (MSG)
Master sergeants may be selected to attend the joint warrant officers' course at SAF Warrant Officer School to be promoted to second warrant officer. In the new scheme, they need to first go through the rank of third warrant officer, which is usually attained just before or after they go through the warfighter course from the Specialist and Warrant Officer Advanced School.
With the SAF Warrant Officer School, Specialist and Warrant Officer Advanced School and Specialist Cadet School, Pasir Laba Camp, site of the former Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (SAFTI) is the new home of the warrant officer and specialist corps of the SAF.
"Specialist" is a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1953 and has appeared in various collections, including Untouched by Human Hands (1954) and The Golden Age of Science Fiction (anthology), edited by Kingsley Amis in 1981.
is a Japanese television drama series that premiered on TV Asahi on 14 January 2016. It was previously aired as Saturday Night drama from 2013 to 2015. In this drama, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a member of SMAP, played the lead role, Kaho Minami, Yūta Hiraoka and Natsuna appeared in supporting roles. The first episode received a viewership rating of 17.1%, and it's overall average was 12.0%.
In arena football, a specialist was a player, other than a quarterback or placekicker, who was exempt from the league's one-platoon system ("Iron Man"). Under the original Arena football system, six of the eight players on each team were required to play both offense and defense.
One of the two offensive positions was required to be a quarterback or, in the event of a kick, a placekicker. The other was known as an offensive specialist (OS). Offensive specialists usually played wide receiver, either as a flanker or a slotback. The defense was allowed two defensive specialists (DS), who almost universally played in the secondary. Players were referred to as "specialists" instead of their more traditional positional designations (example, a player would be called a defensive specialist, and be designated as "DS" on a position chart, instead of a cornerback or CB).
Specialists were usually required to participate on special teams, a requirement that was not extended to quarterbacks.
The specialist designation was eliminated after both the Arena Football League and af2 abandoned the one-platoon system prior to the 2007 season. Most other indoor football leagues have used free substitution since their inception.
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Usage examples of "specialist".
Having specialists who devote their entire time and attention to the study of these diseases, we are able to relieve and cure a large number painlessly and speedily, in which the awkward manipulations of physicians or surgeons, whose hands, untrained by constant and skillful use, not only fail to effect any benefit, but set up new, or aggravate existing, disease.
It meant that the equipment would be transported separately by people who were considered more expendable than the six Ampersand specialists.
I know is this self, the person I am now, the autistic bioinformatics specialist fencer lover of Marjory.
Dinosaurs living in the oases now preserved in the Navajo Sandstone were generally small, bipedal desert specialists.
But Malone had at first told the specialists much more, ceasing only when he saw that utter incredulity was his portion.
She sent out cop pies to all the African travel specialists around the world, from Tokyo to Copen aagen.
There was an empty seat on one side of him where Ruby McAlmott, that awful best-seller woman, ought to have sat and an empty place on the other side of him where the sex specialist, Martin Dering, ought to have been, but he moved up nearer to a poet, who is very well known in Blackheath, and tried to make the best of things.
They were mathematicians and theoretical physicists, all specialists in the Bell Continuum, in descriptor theory.
After the adjournment, Doil was fidgety but silent while DETECTIVE 53 two crime-scene specialists testified.
Having specialists who devote their entire time to the study and cure of these diseases, we are thereby enabled to attain the highest degree of skill in the management of these cases.
The specialist, on the contrary, by confining his studies and researches to one class of diseases only, is enabled to inform himself thoroughly and accurately on all the improvements made in the methods and means of practice in his special department.
Paley explains that three scientists from the Russian RKK Energia company and two from the European Space Agency have been bumped for the new science mission, and everyone turns to look at Mariella, Penn Brown, and Anchee Ye when he introduces them as the specialists who will be working on the microbiology project.
The hall is deserted of course, it is always deserted, very few people in the sector we occupy have any interest whatsoever in the past and specialists have their separate facilities in the museum, little carels in which they exhibit the minutae and miniaturizations of the Golden Era, seeking esoterica which such as we can never understand.
Why try to make room for another specialist when a generalist like Simna could do multiple duty?
As soon as he entered, he saw Hek, the symbolic-communications specialist, and a slim human named Shahinshah Azmi, the head of the material-sciences department.