Specialist vs Expect - What's the difference?
specialist | expect |
Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
(medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
(US, military) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
*, chapter=13
, title= To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
As an adjective specialist
is (british) specialised.As a noun specialist
is someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.As a verb expect is
to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).specialist
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia specialist)Synonyms
* (Someone who is an expert or devoted to a particular area of study) aficionado, enthusiast, connoisseurAntonyms
* generalistHypernyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* specialisticAnagrams
* ----expect
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)