Synonym: beginner, expert, professional, specialist. Similar words: alma mater, hauteur, dramatic, dramatize, a matter of, defamatory, acclamation, dramatically. Meaning: ['æmətə] n. 1. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime 2. does not play for pay. adj. 1. engaged in as a pastime 2. lacking professional skill or expertise.
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121) The amateur crypto-hackers challenge each statement, asking for clarification, mulling it over until each understands.
122) The picture includes the provision made for amateur and professional, part-time and full-time church musicians.
123) As an amateur pilot, he needs to know if the conditions will be favorable for flying.
124) Present-day runners, whether amateur or professional, are more suitably attired in vest and shorts and well-trained. Sentencedict.com
125) Robinson first heard the Vocaleers when they came in second at the Apollo amateur night.
126) This weekend the Medieval Circle, a bunch of amateur historians, is holding a convention.
127) This is where a good photographer, plus a gifted amateur, come in.
128) Expectations for Verplank soared after that tour victory in 1985, the first by an amateur since Gene Littler in 1954.
129) Probably the last of the true amateur captains, his decisions were not controlled by monetary or vested interests.
130) However when he's not sorting out pest problems in Leeds he is treading the floorboards in many amateur theatrical productions.
131) It is obvious that it thought the enlightened amateur, like Hope himself, was the ideal judge.
132) He has more programs, five or six, not two like an amateur.
133) This is the sort of book in which the amateur detective, modern-style, is a much more credible figure.
134) There are a number of print options which complete this professional training aid fit for any professional or amateur team.
135) A proficient rather than brilliant amateur, Johnson went professional in 1968 and progressed well, winning thirty-two of thirty-eight contests.
136) With luck the amateur collector should be able to obtain specimens as splendid.
137) The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level.
138) On the first point, I think it is a wonderful move and a great help to the amateur game.
139) The parietal lobes are probably what keep our visual experiences from looking like an amateur videotape, jerking from here to there.
140) Earlier, Treleaven had broken Blackmoor's amateur record of 65, his round containing five birdies and only one dropped shot.
141) It happened during a performance by a newly setup amateur dramatic group, all of whose members were mentally handicapped.
142) They pass on basic gardening skills to Ray Gravel, the ex-Rugby Union international and keen amateur gardener.
143) Her former husband is Britain's most distinguished amateur huntsman and Master of the Duke of Beafort's foxhounds.
144) The thing that attracted me was that it wasn't your average plonk, plonk, three cord amateur musician.
145) Amateur experimental breeding of Cleaner Shrimps has already been mentioned as a good example of a mobile invertebrate which could be chosen.
146) Their nature is multifarious, but they are mainly from other professionals in other organizations or from informed amateur botanists or gardeners.
147) Although purpose-made units are expensive to buy, ordinary hand-microphones attached to simple booms make an acceptable alternative for amateur use.
148) Courses would have elements which applied to both professional and to amateur musicians.
149) Stahl belongs to that dyed-in-the-wool amateur breed who follow the sun not for money but for fun.
150) It's not that he's 27 years old or an amateur boxer, but that he's black.
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