fingerprint expert
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈfɪŋɡərˌprɪnt ˈɛkspɜrt/
- Specialized
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perito en huellas dactilares
- During the investigation, the police relied on advice from a skilled fingerprint expert to identify the culprit.
Examples
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Ladies and gentlemen... ...you're about to hear the testimony of a fingerprint expert... ...concerning evidence that he claims to have identified on a certain glass.
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What if the fingerprint experts can't identify him?
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They aren't fingerprint experts, but they can follow any trail.
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"Where's the boogie man when you need him?" my mother says when I come home with $28 from the one locker I closed carefully behind me, wiping it down as if that girl would notice before she touched it and call in the fingerprint expert.
Fiction book (1997) -
YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR THE TESTIMONY OF A FINGERPRINT EXPERT CONCERNING EVIDENCE HE CLAIMS TO HAVE IDENTIFIED IN A CERTAIN GLASS.
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The jury listened carefully to the testimony of the fingerprint expert who analyzed the evidence.
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After examining the crime scene, the fingerprint expert was able to match the prints to a suspect.
Synonyms
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3.2
A person who knows a lot about a subject and can help others
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3.9
A person who knows a lot about one area of work or study
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4.5
A person who finds and compares marks left by fingers to help the police
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'fingerprint' (a finger-made impression used for identification) + 'expert' (an individual with deep knowledge), i.e. an expert in fingerprints. This noun compound follows a transparent, productivity pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun fingerprint expert comes from the simple image of a person who studies the small fingerprint marks left by fingers. So a fingerprint expert is a trained person who reads those marks to 'identify' who left them, often at a crime scene.