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# specialist

«specialist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who knows a great deal about one subject or does…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a specialist, specialists); adjective (specialist)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A specialist is a person who knows a great deal about one subject or does one kind of work very well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#m1)

2) (health) A specialist is a doctor who treats one part of the body or one kind of illness, like a heart specialist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#m2)

3) As an adjective, specialist means for one particular purpose or for experts, as in "specialist equipment". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health, a GP sends you to a specialist with a referral. In school, specialist teachers teach music, PE or languages. In science and careers, specialists study one field deeply. Phrases: "a specialist in", "see a specialist", "heart specialist", "specialist shop", "specialist knowledge".

### examples

- The doctor sent me to a skin specialist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x1)
- Our music lessons are taught by a specialist teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x2)
- She is a specialist in sharks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x3)
- The divers used specialist equipment to explore the wreck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x4)
- We bought my bike at a specialist cycle shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x5)
- A specialist came to fix the old church clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x6)
- I leave to Celtic specialists the task of settling the exact relations of these various texts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x7)

### note

Countable: a specialist, specialists. Verb: specialise (UK) / specialize (US). Opposite: a generalist (someone who knows about many things), such as a GP who treats all kinds of illness. In the USA, "specialist" is also a rank in the army.

### In the corpora

- [Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/26/)
- [Children's wards have nurses, doctors and play specialists, and usually a bed or chair so a parent can stay overnight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/4/)
- [Play specialists use dolls, pictures and games to show children what will happen and to distract them during procedures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «specialist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.