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# adept

adjective; noun

«adept» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Adjective: very skilled at doing something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#m1)
2. Noun: a person who is very skilled at something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, a person who has become skilled in magic or a hard craft; in lessons, someone who is good at a task

### Examples

- He is adept at chess. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#x1)
- After years of study he became an adept in the black art. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#x2)
- She is an adept at folding paper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

in tales, a person who has become skilled in magic or a hard craft; in lessons, someone who is good at a task

### Examples

- Kalisch in the supplementary paragraphs gives a different attribution ; both are wrong, as an adept cultured clairvoyant could prove. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/adept/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «adept» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«adept» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/adept.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «adept» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/adept/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«adept» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/adept.html) on Mova free.