Expert vs Nerd - What's the difference?
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Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
Characteristic of an expert.
A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
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A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
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One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
As nouns the difference between expert and nerd
is that expert is (label) rate assessor while nerd is nerd (a person, often very studious, with poor social skills).expert
English
(wikipedia expert)Adjective
(en adjective)- I am expert at making a simple situation complex.
- My cousin is an expert pianist.
- This problem requires expert knowledge.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* inexpert * nonexpertNoun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
nerd
English
Alternative forms
* nurd (very rare)Noun
(en noun)"Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
- They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.
- a computer nerd
- a comic-book nerd
- Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants
- Nerds seem to have fun with each other, but in a way that causes others to laugh AT them.
- Why are you hanging out with that nerd ?
Synonyms
* (sense) dag (Australian), doofus, dork, dweeb, geek, goober, loser, propeller head, twerp, * See alsoDerived terms
* arachnerd * cybernerd * entreprenerd * millionerd * nerdboy * nerdbrain * nerdcore * nerdette * nerdfest * nerdgasm * Nerdic * nerdification * nerdify * nerdiness * nerdish * nerdism * nerdistan * nerdlet * nerdlike * nerdling * nerdlinger * nerdo * nerdom/nerddom * nerd out * nerdsome * nerdspeak * nerdtastic * nerdvana * nerdy * technonerdReferences
*Online Etymology Dictionary