Meaning of Tyro | Babel Free

Definitions

A beginner; a novice.

Equivalents

Examples

“I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.”

“Thus[…] he separates[…] the details and the whole[…]; and because details alone[…] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.”

“1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525, Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...”

“The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.”

“Switzerland for Railfans, by B. J. Prigmore and W. J. Wyse (1s.) is a stencilled pamphlet produced by the Electric Railway Society with a number of useful tips for the tyro planning his first visit.”

“Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].”

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