Terve vs Terse - What's the difference?
terve | terse |
(label) To fall; be thrown down.
(label) To dash down; cast; throw: in combination with (m); to overthrow; overturn.
(label) To turn down or back; roll or fold over.
(obsolete) Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
(of speech or style) Brief, concise, to the point.
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 4, author=Lewis Smith, work=the Guardian
, title= Abruptly or brusquely short.
As verbs the difference between terve and terse
is that terve is (label) to fall; be thrown down while terse is .terve
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(en-verb)terse
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(er)- "A consise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedias,"
Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?, passage=Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, "for the next 40 years", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.}}