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Adept vs Delft - What's the difference?

adept | delft |

As an adjective adept

is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

As a noun adept

is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

As a proper noun delft is

city in the netherlands, in the province of zuid-holland.

adept

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
  • * 1837-1839 ,
    • Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.

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    * inept

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
  • * 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
    • When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
  • * 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
    • Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.

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    Related terms

    * apt * aptitude

    Anagrams

    * pated, taped

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    delft

    English

    Etymology 1

    After the Dutch city of Delft.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A style of blue and white earthenware.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft , and here and there a bas-relief.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
  • * Ray
    • The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could keep them dry.
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