noun
definition
A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
example
We called in several experts on the subject, but they couldn't reach an agreement.
definition
A player ranking just below master.
adjective
definition
Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
example
I am expert at making a simple situation complex.
definition
Characteristic of an expert.
example
This problem requires expert knowledge.
Examples of expert in a Sentence
I'm going to be an expert if this keeps up.
His father was no doubt an expert, while Dean's ability was somewhere in between.
Dean was no expert, but he could tell his guest was a first-class photographer.
What would trusting a real mind control expert get him?
He's the expert on the subject of partying, that's for sure, but him and Melissa took off.
Constant practice makes the fingers very flexible, and some of my friends spell rapidly--about as fast as an expert writes on a typewriter.
It can be facilitated by any expert.
In colonial times the llanos were covered with immense herds of cattle and horses and were inhabited by a race of hardy, expert horsemen, the llaneros.
The black diamond expert trails were for the Donald Rylands of the world.
Expert naturalists accompanied the party, which did not emerge from the wilderness until the middle of the following March, bringing with it a collection which scientists pronounce of unusual value for students of natural history.
He was an expert in all that related to map-drawing, and published two star-atlases.
It is difficult to get the hands to work until the cotton is fully opened, and it is hard to induce them to pick over ioo lb a day, though some expert hands are found in every cotton plantation who can pick twice as much.
The Hirado expert has not yet attained technical skill equal to that of the Chinese.
The natives are expert and ingenious fishermen.
He loved riding and walking, was an expert swimmer and enjoyed a game at tennis.
By repeated hammering and polishing the expert obtains such control of the wood-grain pattern that its sinuosities and eddies seem to have developed symmetry without losing anything of their fantastic grace.
This is done several times, the number depending on the quality of graining that the expert desires to produce.
In the intervening period the assessed valuation of realty in Boston increased more than 100%, while that of personalty slightly diminished (the corresponding figures for the entire United States from 1860 to 1890 being 172% and 12%), yet the most competent business and expert opinions regarded the true value of personalty as at least equal to and most likely twice as great as that of realty.
At the outbreak of the war with Spain he resigned from the Navy Department and raised the first volunteer regiment of cavalry, popularly known as the "Rough Riders," because many of its members were Western cowboys and ranchmen expert in the handling of the rough and often unbroken horses of the Western frontier.
The study of electricity he took up in 1746 when he first saw a Leyden jar, in the manipulation of which he became expert and which he improved by the use of granulated lead in the place of water for the interior armatures; he recognized that condensation is due to the dielectric and not to the metal coatings.
Ribot's great reputation as an expert in finance and foreign affairs brought him effectively into office.
The country, in the words of an expert sent to report on the subject by the French government, " can produce an infinite variety of wines suitable to every constitution and to every caprice of taste."
Fish are exceedingly abundant, especially in the lagoons of atolls, and form an important article of food supply for the natives, who are generally expert fishermen.
More attention seems to have been given to the matter in the United States of America and in Germany and Russia than in England, but the infinite variety of samples known to the commercial expert, and the impossibility of standardizing those in such a manner as to make readily recognizable what the chemist has treated, renders most of the recorded analyses of uncertain value.
He soon became an expert compositor, and after a time began to write anonymously for the Herald.
The Martha's Vineyard Indians were subject to the Wampanoag tribe, on the mainland, were expert watermen, and were very numerous when the whites first came.
Consulted as a friend by Grosseteste, as a spiritual director by Simon de Montfort, the countess of Leicester and the queen, as an expert lawyer and theologian by the primate, Boniface of Savoy, he did much to guide the policy both of the opposition and of the court party in all matters affecting the interests of the Church.
To keep a valuable collection of orchids in good condition requires the services of an expert orchid grower.
There are also thriving fisheries, the Looe fishermen being particularly expert with the seine on a rocky bottom.
To compose such revelations at will was beyond the power of the most expert literary artist; it would have required either a prophet or a shameless impostor.
The expert can immediately detect the peculiarly virulent characters of the mixed intoxication due to the consumption of spirits containing a large percentage of fusel oil.
As an administrator of his principality he displayed rare energy, issuing numerous ordinances, appointing expert officials, and in particular establishing the finances on a scientific basis.
The Afghans are expert agriculturists and make profitable use of all the natural sources of water-supply.
To the expert, in any study which involves contingent matter, i.e.
Carefully educated by his mother and under the direction of Colonel Osio, he outgrew the weakness of his childhood and became expert in horsemanship and military exercises.
There we are told that for purposes of divination certain signs were scratched on slips of wood from a fruit-bearing tree (including, no doubt, the beech; cp. book, German Buck, and Buchstabe, a letter of the alphabet); the slips were thrown down promiscuously on a white cloth, whence the expert picked them up at random and by them interpreted fate.
He was an expert in childhood adversity, monoamine oxidase a genotype, and risk for conduct disorder.
There is a list of people who can provide expert advice on selected topics.
The sounds from his expert's audio equipment are immediately arresting, and again, very, very loud.
To use a few well chosen words, coined by some animal expert no doubt, I have been quite the busy beaver.
A local expert and the rangers will take you on a night walk around Three Sisters Recreation Area looking for these misunderstood creatures.
I do not decry that I am a expert scientist.
All are holistic systems when used by expert herbalists in that they take the individual's symptoms into account not just the disease.
She is an expert in modeling biogeochemical process and coastal aquifer hydrodynamics.
She responds quickly to the gentle pressure of affection, the pat of approval, the jerk of impatience, the firm motion of command, and to the many other variations of the almost infinite language of the feelings; and she has become so expert in interpreting this unconscious language of the emotions that she is often able to divine our very thoughts.
The evolution of the distinct business of cotton broking is readily comprehensible when we remind ourselves that the requirements, as regards raw material, of all spinners are much alike generally, and that no spinner could afford to pay an expert to devote himself entirely to purchasing cotton for his mill.
In consequence of this tampering with the market no certainty can be felt about the effect even of expert dealing.
It is evident that accurate knowledge of the character and structure of the rock-formations in petroliferous territories is of the greatest importance in enabling the expert to select favourable sites for drilling operations; hence on well-conducted petroleumproperties it is now customary to note the character and thickness of the strata perforated by the drill, so that a complete section may be prepared from the recorded data.
Although the bent of his mind was legal, he never made himself an expert jurist; but he had the art of turning his knowledge, such as it was, to excellent account.
He became an expert fencer and he organized at Annapolis the first eight-oared crew, of which he was for two years captain.