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Concert vs Conceit - What's the difference?

concert | conceit |

In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between concert and conceit

is that concert is (uncountable) musical accordance or harmony; concord while conceit is (uncountable) overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.

In countable|lang=en terms the difference between concert and conceit

is that concert is (countable) a musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part while conceit is (countable) a novel or fanciful idea; a whim.

As verbs the difference between concert and conceit

is that concert is to plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation while conceit is (obsolete) to form an idea; to think.

As nouns the difference between concert and conceit

is that concert is (uncountable) agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action while conceit is (obsolete) something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

concert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
  • To plan; to devise; to arrange.
  • * Burke
  • A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan the campaign.
  • To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot.

    Noun

    (wikipedia concert)
  • (uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
  • (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
  • (countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
  • I'm going to the rock concert on Friday.

    conceit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12
  • a man wise in his own conceit
  • The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
  • a man of quick conceit
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
  • Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
  • * Shakespeare
  • His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
  • (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
  • * 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
  • By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .
  • (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
  • * L'Estrange
  • On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
  • * Dryden
  • Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
  • (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
  • (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
  • * Cotton
  • Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
  • Design; pattern.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * conceited * conceitedly * conceitedness * self-conceit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
  • * 1643 : , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
  • Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
  • (obsolete) To conceive.
  • * South
  • The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive as if they really were so.
  • * Shakespeare
  • One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.