Linguist vs Professional - What's the difference?
linguist | professional |
One who studies linguistics.
A person skilled in languages.
A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
A person who belongs to a profession
A person who earns his living from a specified activity
An expert.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
(lb) Expert.
As nouns the difference between linguist and professional
is that linguist is linguist (one who studies linguistics) while professional is a person who belongs to a profession.As an adjective professional is
of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.linguist
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bilinguist * linguistic * linguistics * trilinguistSee also
* (l) * (l)professional
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(wikipedia professional) (en noun)- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.