Efficient vs Proficient - What's the difference?
efficient | proficient |
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
* Wilson
Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
As adjectives the difference between efficient and proficient
is that efficient is making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy while proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.As a noun proficient is
an expert.efficient
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic
- The efficient cause is the working cause.
Antonyms
* inefficientDerived terms
* efficient cause * subefficientReferences
proficient
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient .