I feel I have a certain aptitude, like a musical ear.
For ordinary human beings, however, nature does not amount to actual ability but only furnishes certain aptitude, dispositions or directions of development.
For example, a company can create challenges for students to work on, providing a way to directly test students for certain aptitudes or skills.
At that time, there was no service industry on the island, so Mr. Wangeman devised tests to decide who had aptitude for certain jobs.
His aptitude for a certain kind of role — he's the Michael Jordan of put-upon nice guys — continues to serve him well.
I am a normal man, wouldn't you say, intelligent and well educated, yes, with an aptitude for a certain kind of high-level work, but fundamentally normal, in temperament and disposition.
TS Eliot had a knack for damning with the faintest of praise, declaring that "[Aldous] Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural – but little developed – aptitude for seriousness.
That said, Oliver Luck thinks that there have been certain moments post-football when his aptitude for the game has been helpful to him.
Review your skills and talents to make sure you have the aptitude for a plumbing career.
While Ms. Scott strives for a certain technical aptitude in her dancers — they point their feet, sink effortlessly into grand pliés and leap with little effort — they are also required to be still within the moody setting.
