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Amateur vs Intermediate - What's the difference?

amateur | intermediate |

As nouns the difference between amateur and intermediate

is that amateur is a lover {{term|of}} something while intermediate is anything in an intermediate position.

As adjectives the difference between amateur and intermediate

is that amateur is non-professional while intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

As a verb intermediate is

to mediate, to be an intermediate.

amateur

English

(wikipedia amateur)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lover (of) something.
  • * 2006 , John Hailman, Thomas Jefferson on Wine , University of Mississippi 2006, p. x:
    • he conducted extensive correspondence on wines with European suppliers, employing a wine vocabulary familiar to any modern amateur of wines.
  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; especially one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
    • She is an accomplished amateur woodworker.
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
    • The entire thing was built by some amateurs with screwdrivers and plywood.

    Derived terms

    * radio amateur

    Synonyms

    * dilettante * bungler

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Non-professional.
  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
    • amateur sports
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.
    • Duct tape is a sure sign of amateur workmanship.

    Derived terms

    * amateur hour * amateur night

    External links

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    intermediate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything in an intermediate position.
  • An intermediary.
  • (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

    • Verb

    (intermediat)
  • to mediate, to be an intermediate
  • to arrange, in the manner of a broker
    • Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

    Derived terms

    * intermediation *