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Excited vs Cited - What's the difference?

excited | cited |

As verbs the difference between excited and cited

is that excited is past participle of lang=en while cited is past tense of cite.

As an adjective excited

is having great enthusiasm.

excited

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having great enthusiasm.
  • He was very excited about his promotion.
  • * 2011 , (Rebecca Black) featuring
  • Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
    Today i-is Friday, Friday
    We-we-we so excited
    We so excited
    We gonna have a ball today.
  • (physics) Being in a state of higher energy.
  • The excited electrons give off light when they drop to a lower energy state.
  • Having an erection; erect.
  • Synonyms

    * enthusiastic

    Derived terms

    * excited state

    cited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cite)
  • Anagrams

    * edict ----

    cite

    English

    Verb

    (cit)
  • To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
  • To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  • To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
  • Derived terms

    * citation

    See also

    * attest * quote

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A citation.
  • We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

    Anagrams

    * * ----