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Tort vs Mort - What's the difference?

tort | mort |

As nouns the difference between tort and mort

is that tort is fraction while mort is roach; a small fish.

As an adjective tort

is broken.

tort

English

(wikipedia tort)

Etymology 1

Dialectal variation of (l).

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tart, sharp.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An injury or wrong.
  • * Spenser
    • that had them long opprest with tort
  • (legal) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied at civil law, usually through awarding damages.
  • (rfc-sense) The area of law dealing with such wrongful acts.
    • Synonyms
    * delict (Scottish law)
    Derived terms
    * tortious

    See also

    *

    Etymology 3

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
  • * Emerson
    • Yet holds he them with tortest rein.

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    mort

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
    • Derived terms
    * mort cloth * mort stone

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".

    Noun

  • A great quantity or number.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • There was a mort of merrymaking.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (mortal).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
    • Antonyms
    * immort English clippings

    Etymology 4

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-year-old salmon.

    • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

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