uninitiate

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Maybe it seems cool for the uninitiated, but it is just a PHP clone of Rails.

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Quick take

people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it diverts the attention of the uninitiate"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of uninitiate gathered in one view.

noun

people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it diverts the attention of the uninitiate"

adjective

not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for uninitiate.

noun

people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it diverts the attention of the uninitiate"

adjective

not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"

Example sentences

Maybe it seems cool for the uninitiated, but it is just a PHP clone of Rails.

A minor nit, but since it shows up so often, it doesn't look great to the uninitiated.

Please enlighten an uninitiated: what does "mo" mean in the last panel?

It sucks for the uninitiated computer user, who can't imagine what the hell "windows" are on the screen.

I understand that it might not be what it seems, but it's hard to figure out what's for real and what's just somber humor for the uninitiated.

I don't know much about Haskell in detail, so maybe that's just me, but it does suggest that this lacks some of AWK's readability for the uninitiated....

Everything I see is from 2012 but I'd really like something from 2014 simply because I presume as an uninitiate that the platform is moving quickly.

For the uninitiated, the special thing about the Oxford English Dictionary is that it is not really a dictionary in the sense you are probably used to.

For the uninitiated: stack effect declarations are akin to function prototypes in C, only lacking type information.

I like to call this cognitive compatibility - the amount of effort required from an uninitiated English-speaking observer to understand what a program does.

" We should rest assured that our electronic communications being scooped up and stored couldn't ever possibly be used for nefarious purposes against a citizen of the US, that it isn't a gross violation of a person's right to privacy and dignity and that even the majority of the NSA are kind-hearted people looking out for America's best interests in the big, scary world full of North Korea's and Muslim radicals and that my virgin, uninitiated mind just doesn't understand.