Especially vs Professional - What's the difference?
especially | professional |
(lb) In a special manner; specially.
(lb) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
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(lb) (Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something).
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
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A person who belongs to a profession
A person who earns his living from a specified activity
An expert.
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Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
(lb) Expert.
As an adverb especially
is (lb) in a special manner; specially.As a noun professional is
a person who belongs to a profession.As an adjective professional is
of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.especially
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Adverb
(en adverb)See also
* espprofessional
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(wikipedia professional) (en noun)- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.