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Proficient vs Emerging - What's the difference?

proficient | emerging |

As adjectives the difference between proficient and emerging

is that proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill while emerging is becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.

As nouns the difference between proficient and emerging

is that proficient is an expert while emerging is emergence.

As a verb emerging is

present participle of lang=en.

proficient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
  • He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
  • 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 .

    Synonyms

    * (good at) skilled, fluent, practiced

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expert.
  • Synonyms

    * (expert) expert; see also

    emerging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • emergence
  • * 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
  • We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district