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COMPETENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
Example:
a competent performance
Classified under:
Similar:
adequate; equal (having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task)
Derivation:
competency (the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
Example:
a competent typist
Classified under:
Similar:
able; capable (have the skills and qualifications to do things well)
effective; efficient (able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively)
workmanlike (worthy of a good workman)
Also:
capable ((usually followed by 'of') having capacity or ability)
efficient (being effective without wasting time or effort or expense)
qualified (meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task)
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Antonym:
incompetent (not qualified or suited for a purpose)
Derivation:
competence; competency (the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Legally qualified or sufficient
Example:
competent testimony
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
incompetent (legally not qualified or sufficient)
Context examples:
How the Revolution had swept them out of their ships, and the force been left with insubordinate seamen and no competent leaders.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Bone marrow-derived autologous mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) infected with the oncolytic, replication-competent adenovirus ICOVIR5, with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Oncolytic Adenovirus ICOVIR5-infected Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
Inspector Gregory, to whom the case has been committed, is an extremely competent officer.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A gene therapy agent containing an attenuated, replication-competent, genetically engineered mutant form of the Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) strain KOS with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenovirus serotype 5 strain, selectively replication competent in cells defective in the Rb/p16 tumor suppressor pathway, with potential oncolytic activity.
(Oncolytic Ad5-Delta 24RGD, NCI Thesaurus)
The MVA viral vector, derived from the replication-competent strain Ankara, is a highly attenuated, replication-defective vaccinia strain incapable of virion assembly.
(MVA-FCU1 TG4023, NCI Thesaurus)
ADP may enhance spread and oncolytic activity of replication-competent adenoviruses.
(Ad5-yCD/mutTK(SR39)rep-ADP, NCI Thesaurus)
A registered nurse who has passed an examination to show possession of a body of knowledge commensurate with competent practice as awarded by The Board of Certification in Emergency Nursing.
(Certified Emergency Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)
But being of an excellent understanding, much improved by contemplation and converse, he at last arrived at a competent knowledge of what human nature, in our parts of the world, is capable to perform, and desired I would give him some particular account of that land which we call Europe, but especially of my own country.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
