Professional vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
professional | intelligent |
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.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
As adjectives the difference between professional and intelligent
is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.As a noun professional
is a person who belongs to a profession.professional
English
Noun
(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.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessionalintelligent
English
Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}