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# specialist

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

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

## Everyday

1. A specialist is a person who knows a great deal about one subject or does one kind of work very well. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x1)
- Our music lessons are taught by a specialist teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x2)
- She is a specialist in sharks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x3)
- The divers used specialist equipment to explore the wreck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x4)
- We bought my bike at a specialist cycle shop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/specialist/#x5)
- A specialist came to fix the old church clock. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

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