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Covert vs Ambition - What's the difference?

covert | ambition |

As nouns the difference between covert and ambition

is that covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide while ambition is ambition for some particular achievement.

As an adjective covert

is hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.

covert

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
    • Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • to plant a covert alley
  • (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • how covert matters may be best disclosed
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • whether of open war or covert guile
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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    Synonyms

    * See also * feme covert

    Antonyms

    * overt

    Derived terms

    * covert stuttering

    Related terms

    * cover

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
  • (lb) A feather that covers others

    • Anagrams

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    ambition

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
    • My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
  • * Burke
    • the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
  • (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
    • My ambition is to own a helicopter.
  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
  • (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
  • (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
  • * Milton
    • [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "ambition")

    Related terms

    * ambience * ambient * ambit * ambitious * ambitionist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
    • Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.

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