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Apt vs First-rate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between apt and first-rate

is that apt is suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited while first-rate is describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.

As nouns the difference between apt and first-rate

is that apt is initialism of automation presses tooling|lang=en while first-rate is a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.

As a proper noun APT

is initialism of Alabama Public Television|lang=en.

apt

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
  • Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt , since the election night will bring out the lunatics.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
  • a river apt to be forded by a lamb
  • (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
  • * (1628–1699)
  • My vines and peacheswere apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
  • * (1834-1913)
  • This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
  • * (Fairfax Harrison) (1869-1938)
  • that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
  • Ready]]; especially fitted or [[qualify, qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
  • * (rfdate) Johnson
  • An apt wit.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:(Although I) live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
  • Synonyms

    (split by senses) * disposed, predisposed, inclined, liable, tending towards * appropriate, suitable, meet * fit, qualified * prompt, quick * ready * See also

    Derived terms

    () * aptly * aptness

    Anagrams

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    first-rate

    Noun

  • (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
  • Adjective

  • (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
  • (by extension) Exceptionally good.
  • * (Matthew Arnold)
  • Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

    See also

    * second-rate * third-rate * fourth-rate