Argent vs Agent - What's the difference?
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The metal silver.
(tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
* 1909 , Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
(obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
* Tennyson
of silver or silver-coloured.
(tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
As nouns the difference between argent and agent
is that argent is the metal silver while agent is agent (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations).As an adjective argent
is of silver or silver-coloured.argent
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(wikipedia argent)Alternative forms
* (heraldry)Noun
(-)- The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent ".
- The polished argent of her breast.
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* blanc, silverDerived terms
{{der3, argentic , argentiferous , argentine , argentite , argentum nitricum}}See also
*Quotations
* 1667', Those '''argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost * 1733', Or ask of yonder '''argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man * 1817', she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her '''argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1817', Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine '''argent luxuries! — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1818', Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair '''argent wings — John Keats, ''Hyperion * 1819', At length burst in the '''argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, ''The Eve of St Agnes * 1891',"A castle '''argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles * 1922', Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled '''argent , honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1922', Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field '''argent displayed. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1967', '''Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, ''Berryman's SonnetsAnagrams
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(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36