fingerprint specialist
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4.5
- noun
- /ˈfɪŋɡərˌprɪnt ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
- Specialized
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especialista en huellas dactilares
- During the trial, the fingerprint specialist testified about the matching prints found on the door.
Examples
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As a fingerprint specialist, she spends hours examining tiny details on fingerprints left behind.
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Just then we see Shelley Zydowski, a skinny, bespectacled, no-nonsense fingerprint specialist, approach.
Fiction book (1995) -
These should include local personnel, law enforcement agencies, transportation companies, as well as specialists such as forensic odontologists, forensic pathologists, forensic anthropologists, fingerprint specialists, etc., with good teamwork.
Academic text (2007) -
The police hired a fingerprint specialist to analyze the evidence from the crime scene.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who looks at prints left by fingers to identify people, often in police work
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'specialist' who works with or studies 'fingerprints', so the overall sense is immediately derivable from the parts. This regular noun+noun compound pattern is common across languages and follows standard English compounding, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Fingerprint specialist comes from the clear image of someone who studies a person's fingerprint, the tiny ridges and loops on a finger, and is a specialist at reading them. So, it means 'a person who examines and matches fingerprints for police or court work'.