Specialist vs. Analyst — 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 who practices psychoanalysis.

Possessing or involving detailed knowledge or study of a restricted topic

One who performs systems analysis.

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

Someone who analyzes.

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

(mathematics) A mathematician who studies real analysis.

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

(computing) A systems analyst.

A species with narrow habitat or food requirements

(psychiatry) A practitioner of psychoanalysis.

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

A financial analyst; a business analyst.

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

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

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

Someone who is skilled at analyzing data

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

An expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions

An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.

A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis

A stenotopic species.

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 expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

Practices one branch of medicine