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Apprentice and Novice Definitions

Apprentice

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

Novice

A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.

Apprentice

One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

Novice

A person who has entered a religious order but has not yet taken final vows. Also called novitiate.

Apprentice

A beginner; a learner.
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Novice

A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.

Apprentice

To work as an apprentice
She apprenticed at the ceramics studio.

Novice

(religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

Apprentice

To engage as an apprentice
In colonial times many children were apprenticed to craftsmen.

Novice

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
I am young; a novice in the trade.
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Apprentice

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

Novice

One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

Apprentice

(historical) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Novice

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.

Apprentice

(dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

Novice

Like a novice; becoming a novice.

Apprentice

(transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.
He was apprenticed to a local employer.

Novice

Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

Apprentice

(transitive) To be an apprentice to.
Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.

Novice

Someone new to a field or activity

Apprentice

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Apprentice

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

Apprentice

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.

Apprentice

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

Apprentice

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Apprentice

Be or work as an apprentice;
She apprenticed with the great master

Apprentice

In training;
An apprentice carpenter

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