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Alert vs Athletic - What's the difference?

alert | athletic |

As proper nouns the difference between alert and athletic

is that alert is the northernmost inhabited place in nunavut, canada while athletic is (baseball) a player on the team oakland athletics.

alert

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attentive; awake; on guard.
  • (obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  • * Addison
    • an alert young fellow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An alarm.
  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give warning to.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    athletic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * athletick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) having to do with athletes
  • * Are you a member of the American ''Athletic'' Association?
  • physically active
  • * Since you're such an ''athletic'' person, you may wish to consider joining.
  • having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape
  • * You have such an ''athletic'' build--you must work out regularly.
  • An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability
  • * The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence.

    • Derived terms

    * athletics * unathletic * athleticness

    Related terms

    * athlete