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Exert vs Export - What's the difference?

exert | export |

As a verb exert

is to put in vigorous action.

As a noun export is

export (the act of exporting).

exert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To put in vigorous action.
  • To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=18 April, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona , passage=Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.}}

    export

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of or relating to exportation or exports
  • Noun

    (wikipedia export)
  • (countable) something that is exported
  • Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
  • (uncountable) the act of exporting
  • The export of fish is forbidden in this country.

    Synonyms

    * (the act of exporting ): exportation

    Antonyms

    * (something that is exported ): import * (the act of exporting ): import, importation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to carry away
  • * Francis Bacon
  • [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
  • to sell (goods) to a foreign country
  • Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
  • to cause to spread in another part of the world
  • (computing): to send (data) from one program to another
  • to put up (a child) for international adoption.
  • Synonyms

    * (to carry away ): remove

    Antonyms

    * (to sell (goods) to a foreign country ): import

    Derived terms

    * exportability * exportable * exportation * exporter