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Covertly vs Hyphenator - What's the difference?

covertly | hyphenator |

As an adverb covertly

is in a covert manner, secretly.

As a noun hyphenator is

one who, or that which, hyphenates.

covertly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a covert manner, secretly.

    • hyphenator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, hyphenates.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 7, author=Charles Mcgrath, title=Death-Knell. Or Death Knell., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.” }}