Proficient vs Intermediae - What's the difference?
proficient | intermediae |
Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
As nouns the difference between proficient and intermediae
is that proficient is an expert while intermediae is (zoology) the middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.As an adjective proficient
is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.proficient
English
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 .