Specialist vs. Assistant — What's the Difference?

A person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field

One that assists; a helper.

Possessing or involving detailed knowledge or study of a restricted topic

Holding an auxiliary position; subordinate.

One who is devoted to a particular occupation or branch of study or research

Giving aid; auxiliary.

A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery, especially one who is certified by a board of physicians

Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

Any of several noncommissioned ranks in the US Army that correspond to that of corporal through sergeant first class.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

A species with narrow habitat or food requirements

(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.

(British) Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.

A person who assists or helps someone else.

Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

(British) Sales assistant.

(medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.

A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.

A stenotopic species.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.

An attendant; one who is present.

An expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;

Practices one branch of medicine

Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another