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Pert vs Cert - What's the difference?

pert | cert |

As acronyms the difference between pert and cert

is that pert is Program Evaluation and Review Technique, a method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project while CERT is computer Emergency Response Team.

As an adjective pert

is attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).

As a verb pert

is to behave with pertness.

As an abbreviation cert is

alternative form of cert.|lang=en.

As a noun cert is

certificate.

pert

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).
  • Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
  • * 1594 , William Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 1:
    • "Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:
    • "You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."
  • (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * pertly * pertness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To behave with pertness.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    cert

    English

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • Computer Emergency Response Team